Health Care Should be a Right - Democratic Underground

antigop

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Sun Sep-30-07 03:56 PM
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Health Care Should be a Right

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/20/2660/

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Our country has had publicly funded education since 1643, when the first public school was started in Dedham, Massachusetts. Most people think education is a basic right, so why isn’t healthcare?

The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not have health care as a right of citizenship. As a result, 48 million Americans have no health insurance. Fifty percent of all bankruptcies in this country are now medically related. A recent Pew research poll shows that 65 percent of Americans would like a universal health care system, (facts from Physicians for a National Health Program, PNHP.org).
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PDJane

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Sun Sep-30-07 04:00 PM
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1. This administration

doesn't think education is a right either.

In my view, it is.

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NMMNG

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Sun Sep-30-07 04:06 PM
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3. They want everyone who isn't "deserving"

(e.g., everyone who isn't wealthy) to be sick and dumb. All the better to leave the spoils to them.

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DaveJ

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Sun Sep-30-07 04:29 PM
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8. That's true, and in addition, they want to kill off the weak.

How Christian is that?

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blondie58

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Sun Sep-30-07 04:27 PM
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7. aw come on, PDJane

you know that NCLB helped everyone, don't you? :sarcasm:

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tekisui

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Sun Sep-30-07 04:06 PM
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2. This administration doesn't think Rights are rights.

What Constitution?

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antigop

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Sun Sep-30-07 04:09 PM
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4. What presidential candidate(s) have declared healthcare is a right?

DK has.

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lligrd

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Sun Sep-30-07 04:16 PM
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5. Rights Have Become Entitlements That Only Slouchers Demand

in today's America.

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Demeter

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Sun Sep-30-07 04:21 PM
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6. If It's Good Enough for Congress and the Pres., It's Good Enough for Me and You!

Socialized medicine now! Government-paid health care for all!

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Cleita

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Sun Sep-30-07 04:40 PM
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9. K&R

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midnight

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Sun Sep-30-07 05:00 PM
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10. I like the comparison about education being funded as a

basic right, so why not health care? Let's hope there are savvy people in charge of setting this health care system up that can bring equity to all users.

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