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   > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> merit? And what does that have to do with the subject?   
   > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>>>>>>>> Quit being obtuse.   
   > >>>>>>>>>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>>>>>>>> Being poor is a death sentence under your policies.   
   > >>>>>>>>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>>>>>>> There comes a point at which the individual must take   
   > >>>>>>>>>>>> responsibility for himself and not expect someone else to   
   > >>>>>>>>>>>> give him what he needs or thinks he needs.   
   > >>>>>>>>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>>>>>> People fall. They can get back up again in other countries.   
   > >>>>>>>>>>> Here they just die.   
   > >>>>>>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>>>>> They can get up here too.   
   > >>>>>>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>>>> It's a matter of chance if they get sick. People go bankrupt   
   > >>>>>>>>> from medical costs all the time in America. We're unique like   
   > >>>>>>>>> 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?   
      
   And you believe that money actually goes for that? Stop   
   being stupid.   
   >   
   > Socialism! Nanny atate government! Pay your own way!   
      
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