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Have you lived outside of the US at all? Perhaps in a country with universal health care? I only ask because anyone who has knows that in a vast majority of ex
by run4yourlives 13y ago
Have you lived outside of the US at all? Perhaps in a country with universal health care?
I only ask because anyone who has knows that in a vast majority of examples, the simple act of guaranteeing basic care has nothing at all to do with the questions you raise, in the same way that not paying to use the interstate has nothing to do with you being able to drive to your friend's house for free.
- sp332 13y agoGrecy didn't say any of that. I'm responding to two comments: 1. "Surely care should be available to all" and 2. "everyone through taxes".
- run4yourlives 13y agoYes, but given that variants of this system are in place all over the world, your questions have already been answered a hundred times over, should you choose to look for the answers.
- sp332 13y agoYeah there are a lot of different ones. I'm asking for grecy's opinion. Anyway if you want my "answer", I think we shouldn't do it. Tyranny can be much more efficient than democracy but that doesn't mean it's reliable. Same with socialized healthcare. Corruption is too easy and too damaging to gamble with.
- run4yourlives 13y agoIf you want my answer, I think your opinion is ignorant and ignores basic fact in favour of ideology for ideology's sake. Unless of course you also support disbanding the entire US Armed Forces (you know, those guys with guns and stuff that can literally destroy anything that we've socialized?), your stance is hypocritical. You are the epitome of the exact thing that you fear, and you don't even seem to realize it.
- sp332 13y agoedited: If I were doing ideology for ideology's sake, I would support disbanding the whole US armed forces. But in capitulation to "fact" I only support getting rid of most of it. I'm not in favor of the military-industrial-congressional complex. edit2: what does the military have to do with socialism, anyway?
- run4yourlives 13y ago>what does the military have to do with socialism, anyway? How, exactly do you pay for a military? How, exactly do you pay for universal healthcare? Why is the implementation of one okie-dokie and the other the "path to tyranny"?
- sp332 13y agoI'm OK with a military being strictly limited by laws to prevent abuse. Not so much with healthcare.