From: cynicalbastard54@gmail.com   
      
   This isn't surprising at all.  If you want proof of the failure of   
   private-for-profit health care, look no further that the Divided States of   
   America.  If you can't afford it, tuff!  This "mantra" from a country that   
   prides itself on being "the most    
   Christian country in the world".  What bulls**t!  I was in New Hampshire (the   
   New Hampshire state motto is "Live Free or die!") back in 2004 and got into a   
   discussion with a gentleman who owned his own company in Massachusetts but   
   lived in New Hampshire    
   because the good people of New Hampshire don't have that dirty thing called   
   taxes.  They just charge you for everything you do.  Want your garbage picked   
   up?  They send you a bill.  Want your streets plowed?  They send you a bill.    
   Don't want to pay?     
   Then you do without.  We got into a discussion about health care, and he   
   chastised me about our "stupid" socialist healthcare system.  He defended the   
   U.S. system of pay for it or die.  "Why should I have to pay for your health   
   care?"  I asked him if he    
   was a Christian.  He said of course he was. I asked him about the Christian   
   mantra that we should all be looking out for each other and we should be   
   taking care of each other.  My question then was, "If you're such a Christian,   
   why would you feel that it'   
   s proper to let someone die because they had no insurance and couldn't afford   
   to get health care?  I never got an answer.  Then again, the "true" Christian   
   mantra, and American too, is that it's every man for himself, and survival of   
   the fittest (or    
   wealthiest).  Christian nation indeed!   
      
   Long live Christopher Hitchens!       
      
   On Tuesday, August 4, 2020 at 1:41:03 PM UTC-4, brewn...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Impressive? You bet. Let's get all of our long-term care beds back into the   
   Canadian health-care system and out of the hands of profiteers.    
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