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Whatever the outcome, I hope that the discussion is productive and people don't care about who has the ideas, but what their ideas are.
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this is a good point that should be repeated.
so far, it doesnt seem as if folk from the right are spending a whole lot of effort thinking about this matter, simply because the ways arguments are framed does not appear to have any contact with the content of clinton's proposal. you'd think the proposal would be the topic of the discussion and not vague anxieties about being "enslaved" (pick your functional equivalent term) by the state.
basic health care is a fundamental human right, it seems to me.
the variable is the mode that gets us from here to there.