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Originally posted by roachboy
wonderwench--that **only**obtains within your assumptions--that providing health care for all within an industrialized country is somehow exploitation of others---i reject the argument entirely---you could view health care as a basic human right--indeed the rest of the indutrialized world does so--and that could just as easily be written into legal assumptions as the contrary. personally, i think the american view of health care is totally barbaric. i do not see how it squares with any ethical principles whatsoever. the economic argument for private health care seems arbitrary--reserach funding for example-=-france has a better health care system than the states in almost every respect--except maybe for high tech, high capital care reserved to save the lives of the wealthy, whose lives are presumably worht more than those of the less privileged? do you really believe that?
taxation is not an end in itself.
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France has twice the rate of unemployment as the U.S.
The argument against government provided health care is not economic; it is Constitutional.
Anyone who asserts they have a right to it is insisting that someone else pay for it.