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> if you start with the basis that the government will force private companies to take on customers that can't pay for service, EMTALA already does this and I
by ABeeSea 5y ago
> if you start with the basis that the government will force private companies to take on customers that can't pay for service,
EMTALA already does this and I don’t see a push on the right to repeal EMTALA. Universal healthcare is a more efficient model of what is already happening.
- BobbyJo 5y agoI also don't see a push from republicans to repeal social security. That doesn't mean it isn't a socialist policy.
- ABeeSea 5y agoAre you saying EMTALA (people not left to die on the street) is socialism? I don’t think that meets the definition of socialism.
- BobbyJo 5y agoNo, I'm saying something being supported (or at least not repealed) by republicans doesn't make it ideologically right wing. Republicans, like democrats, have a wide variety of beliefs in their platforms, both right and left.
- DFHippie 5y agoHere: https://www.brookings.edu/research/why-the-2005-social-security-initiative-failed-and-what-it-means-for-the-future/ https://www.brookings.edu/research/why-the-2005-social-secur... It wasn't sold as a push to repeal Social Security, because that polls extremely badly, but that's what it was.
- rmah 5y agoRepealing social security has been a wink-wink, nudge-nudge part of the unspoken Republican platform since social security was created.