Health care is as fundamental, if not more fundamental, than education.

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What is so difficult about grasping the concept that equal access to a basic level of health care is as fundamental, if not MORE fundamental, than equal access to a basic level of education?

You cannot have a functional democracy without equal access to a basic level of education. And education doesn't much matter if you are dead.

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