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   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Doubtful.  Not all countries have socialized medicine.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> The United States is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that   
   >>>>>> does not provide universal health care to its citizens.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I am not going to argue the point.  I consider the subject a   
   >>>>> personal responsibility.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Then don't ever claim that the US is a "Chistian Nation".   
   >>>   
   >>> I have never made such a claim and I never will.   The   
   >>> Treaty of Tripoli settled that.   
   >>>   
   >>  From a prominent retired surgeon:   
   >>   
   >> Every American has the right to keep their body healthy without going   
   >> broke. Every American should have access to public health services in   
   >> their own communities and quality local hospitals.   
   >>   
   >> The obscenely high cost of health care in America is caused by the   
   >> insatiable greed of corporate middlemen who get rich by standing in   
   >> between you and the healthcare your doctors say you need and using   
   >> mountains of costly and unnecessary paperwork to hide the fact that   
   >> they are strip-mining the Medicare trust fund and defrauding the   
   >> American people.   
   >>   
   >> By finally driving the greed and waste out of the system, we can save   
   >> enough to not just lower costs for everyone, but to add much-needed   
   >> coverage for dental, hearing and vision.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >   Bravo. Exactly right.   
   >   
   >   America has the most expensive   
   > health care system in the world   
   > solely because insurance companies   
   > stand in between the patients and   
   > doctors extracting huge profits   
   > for themselves. No country has ever   
   > ditched their public health system   
   > in favor of the "pay up or die"   
   > American system.   
   >   
   AND, conservaturds claim our health system is best in the world while   
   people live longer in other countries and we are near the bottom in   
   infant and maternal mortality.  (to conservaturds:  infant & maternal   
   mortality means more of our mothers and infants die than in other   
   countries)   
      
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