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Hortensis

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11. Many *supposed* libertarians behind this using that
Wed Dec 13, 2017, 06:24 PM
Dec 2017

as an excuse for maximum personal freedom. Everyone takes care of himself, period, and everyone is free to take as much of the means to do that as they can. Like in really backwards third-world countries.

I absolutely believe these people, Paul Ryan an unwealthy but visible fellow true believer, intend a mass die-off by limiting access to medical care to those who can pay personally. It'd take a couple decades, presumably, as businesses finish getting out of the healthcare provision business. Certainly no cattle cars of sick people to dying fields planned. But most of our current renal failure and diabetes epidemics, for instance, would be "solved" far more quickly.

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