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kenny blankenship

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1. You have a basic human right to be forced to purchase something from a private enterprise?
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 05:00 PM
Mar 2012

Ok I think you need to look up the term "right" and think about this some more.

I ACTUALLY believe health care is a human right. That is why I believe it should be funded in a fully public manner by taxes, delivered by a public intermediary who has no profit motive-with nothing to gain by standing between you and the doctors and hospitals who treat you and the drug co.s who make your medicine. And that is why I also believe you should not be compelled to engage a private enterprise who wants to take as much of your money as it can extract and give you as little as possible in return for it, so it can bank the difference as profit. The first arrangement is the proper realization of a human right. The second arrangement is a form of servitude.

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Why YES, I DO support 'Obamacare' [View all] LuckyTheDog Mar 2012 OP
You have a basic human right to be forced to purchase something from a private enterprise? kenny blankenship Mar 2012 #1
If the mandate was the only thing that changed with ACA Proud Liberal Dem Mar 2012 #3
it's bad because if preserves the fallacy that insurance executives deserve to profit... mike_c Mar 2012 #6
They will be earning money and probably some profits Proud Liberal Dem Mar 2012 #7
I think perhaps you misunderstood my response.... mike_c Mar 2012 #10
I want single payer too Proud Liberal Dem Mar 2012 #12
Me too. CAPHAVOC Mar 2012 #4
That's the option we have LuckyTheDog Mar 2012 #13
Not even close zipplewrath Mar 2012 #2
"The rest of the world laughs at what we constructed." great white snark Mar 2012 #8
well, my spawn report (from England)... mike_c Mar 2012 #11
Talk to anyone zipplewrath Mar 2012 #16
It's progress LuckyTheDog Mar 2012 #14
You realize zipplewrath Mar 2012 #17
It is a step forward toward universal coverage. JDPriestly Mar 2012 #5
Yep (nt) LuckyTheDog Mar 2012 #15
I support universal health care EFerrari Mar 2012 #9
I believe in universal single payor healthcare Marrah_G Mar 2012 #18
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