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"Your medical care would be paid for by others. And therefore you would gratefully accept, on bended knee, what was offered to you as a privilege. Your role bei
by mplscoder 11y ago
"Your medical care would be paid for by others. And therefore you would gratefully accept, on bended knee, what was offered to you as a privilege. Your role being responsible for your own care would be diminished."
- michaelochurch 11y agoI've paid (either directly, or by an employer having paid money that otherwise could have gone to me) about $60,000 into the medical insurance system since leaving college. (That's 10 years times $500 per month, which is a low estimate.) I've also paid several hundred thousand dollars in taxes to a government that prioritized blowing up Iraq over protecting us from things that might actually kill us, like cancer and heart disease. Given the amount paid, I see health care as a right, not a privilege. We already have high taxes and high insurance premiums. Yet we live in a society where it's pretty much random whether your insurance even covers you when you get sick.
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