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TopicWhat's your view on healthcare?
Zeus
08/22/18 1:45:23 PM
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Great if you can afford it.

tiago92 posted...
Do you think healthcare should be a right?


No, rights are protections from government. By default, it cannot be a "right." Instead, government-sponsored healthcare -- like any other program providing a "free" service to an individual -- is an entitlement.

Whether or not you feel that everybody should be entitled to taxpayer-funded healthcare -- and there are certainly arguments you could make for or against it -- it doesn't become a "right"

RoboXgp89 posted...
we spend 600 billion on the military every year
we can't afford to give people free stuff


False and somewhat silly conflation. Not to mention that an entirely free healthcare system would cost more than that. So we could cut *all* military funding -- leaving all citizens at risk -- and still only be about halfway there.

https://nypost.com/2016/01/31/bernie-and-the-high-cost-of-free-health-care/
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