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universal health care is basically "the human animal taking care of its own"...
the only stumbling block here is that folk insist on using a very strange understanding of the individual as separate from society and then work out even stranger arguments that present the possibility of universal health care as some kind of affliction----or an impediment to gumption and Individual Achievement.
personally, i find all these arguments to be beside the point: for example, nothing changes about one's Gumption Leading to Individual Achievement if there is universal health care.
why should not some of the suplusses generated by american capitalism be redirected into making something like a decent quality of life available to all?
and where does the idea come from that universal health care would be a will-nilly affair in which any number of people can get cosmetic surgery gratis?
i dont recall that being featured in any proposal.
but maybe its in the fine print.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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