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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gg cox who wrote (41840)	7/12/2017 11:12:33 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

The point is that whatever may be claimed about a right to health care, Canadians don't have it in practice. An absolute right to health care would entail the right to enslave doctors if necessary to get it. Of more practical importance, since enormous amounts of health care can be paid for by a government insurance program without enslaving or coercing medical care workers (other than the coercion involved in taxing them to pay for it), any practical application of such a "right" is quite constrained. You won't get "whatever it takes", you won't get any kind of guarantee of timely care. You get a government program which covers some things well, covers others after long waits, and doesn't cover others at all. "I think there is a right to health care", is just an attempt at a better sounding code word for "I like government health care payment programs"* * - a more accurate term for much of what happens than "health insurance".

To: gg cox who wrote (41840)	7/12/2017 11:31:34 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

Do they have a "right to health care" in the UK? mobile.twitter.com H/T The Barracuda

To: gg cox who wrote (41840)	7/12/2017 11:00:51 PM
From: Alex MG	1 Recommendation Recommended By gg cox Respond to of 42652

it's pretty much a hopeless cause, trying to convince cult members such as i-load, that they worship loads of shit... the cult members will gladly eat their shit sandwiches, day after day Pat Robertson Will Interview Donald Trump Because Accountability Is Dead July 12, 2017 by Hemant Mehta 61 Comments According to the Christian Broadcasting Network, Pat Robertson will be interviewing Donald Trump today in the White House for an interview scheduled to air tomorrow on The 700 Club. Just when you thought Trump’s interviews on Fox News scraped the bottom of the journalistic barrel, he found a new compartment. Robertson has spent much of the past year promoting Trump, blasting his critics, and dismissing any criticism of the President. He has called Trump “ God’s man for this job,” declared criticism of Trump “ Satanic,” asked Christians to pray for Trump to protect him from witches, and said that Trump bragging about sexual assault was just him being “ macho.” And now Robertson has been granted one of the only public, non-Fox News interviews Trump has given in the past few months