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Socialised Medicine (was Re: Dave's Anti-American Rant (you've been warned))
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 14 May 2002 15:36:21 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:
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> > How is having publicly funded and run hospitals intruding into my personal
> > life? I'm 35 and I have *never* had my life intruded by the medical
> > profession, the governement, or anyone else that I didn't want to intrude
> > into my life. My father (62) and mother (59) never had their lives intruded
> > upon. My Opa (lived to be 92) never had his life intruded on. I don't
> > understand that point.
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> Well, as a criticism of public-funded programs, it wasn't a very strong
> point, so don't feel bad if you don't understand it. We've had countless
> discussions here about the US Gov't prying into everyone's dirty laundry (or
> medical history), and that fear (justified or not) will pervade US
> self-perception for a long time to come.
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> > Privatizing everything leads to the 'money talks, everything else walks'
> > dichotomy. Those who have the cash are healthy, those that don't have the
> > cash are unhealthy. Why would I be considered above my fellow person
> > because I have more cash than they do?
OK. Can anyone who thinks a public health care system is a bad idea please
explain why that argument does not hold for a public education system. To
me, and I would guess to most who support these two things, they are both
about ensuring equality of opportunity to a nation's citizens. After having
done this could they please go out and campaign vociferously to dismantle
the US public education system and replace it with a much more efficient
private one.
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