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   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 19/12/2025 01:45, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   > On 2025-12-18 8:22 p.m., Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 18:05:17 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I'm no Marxist chum   
   >>   
   >> Do you benefit from a Socialist-style state-funded health service?   
   >>   
   >> That would be considered “Marxist” in certain quarters ...   
   >   
   > We have a Socialist-style state-funded health service here in Canada and   
   > it is so successful that the government happily offers medical   
   > assistance in dying because most people would rather die.   
   >   
   > Glenn Beck just paid to have a Canadian woman fly to the US to get   
   > surgery for her rare thyroid issue. The Canadian system failed her so   
   > miserably that she had chosen to die.   
   >    
   >   
   > That's the only thing socialism does: fail miserably wherever and   
   > however it is applied.   
   >   
   Well no it doesn't.   
      
   If a funded-through-general-tax health service is defined as socialism.   
      
   Sure you can always pay for special treatment and a new unique way to   
   die of medical intervention, but you only need to look at the data of   
   say the USA versus European health care to see which is better value for   
   money and more likely to prolong life.   
      
      
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