Medical care is not a right OR a privilege.

[KentuckyWoman]

It is a necessity as part of being human. It starts in the womb and ends at the grave.

Clean water, safe food, breathable air, and medical care. Our government does, and should, have a roll in providing them for the general welfare.

No one is talking about taking government out of medical care. If we did big med will go belly up when they lose the tax advantages, grants, loans, and the cast majority of their customers.

So just do it. Quit letting the pigs at the trough set the agenda and just do it. Open medicare to all as an option. 3 lines of text and it is done.

[LakeArenal]

1. Keeping US healthy and well employed is supposed to be what US is about.

Not rich people, not corporations, not the military industrial complex, not Wall Street. It’s OUR money.

[sanatanadharma]

2. Neither privilege, nor right but rather Responsibility

Medical care is the responsibility of the herd, not the hurt.
Societies die when populations get sick.
Social systems seek to solve the sicknesses that spring from selfishness.
Selfless souls seek to succor other selves.
Medical care is a social responsibility.

It doesn't take 'Socialism', but 'Capitalism' is selling the wrong snake-oil.