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   >>>>>>>>> that.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> 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)   
   >   
      
      
   Americans subsidize health care for Israelis.   
      
   Americans subsidize health care for Argentiinians.   
      
   But Americans subsidizing health care for Americans?   
      
   Socialism! Nanny atate government! Pay your own way!   
      
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