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Hillary is bought and paid for. I doubt we'll see single payer health care under her. We'll probably get something better than we have now, but that's not saying much.
As I understand it, the wait times are due to there not being enough doctors, but graduates in medicine in Canada and Western Europe have steadily been on the rise for the past two years. If the trend continues, waiting times will become less and less of a problem.
As for paying for someone else, no man is an island. Sometimes we need to lean on people for help, and sometimes they need to lean on us. That's what society means. All of us, collectively, are interdependent. We have to do our best to make sure the health care system won't make people complacent and dependent, but to deny someone health care because they might not have 100% healthy habits is deeply cruel and inhuman. Universal healthcare is about equality and sympathy, two ideals I hold in very high regard.
To Samcol, is it bullshit that you pay for roads or police? Would you opt out of them and simply not use them? I see medical care as being just as necessary if not more so than any other governmental system or program be it as big as military or as small as regulating for safe baby food. It's alright to admit that sometimes corporations can't get the job done because they're too profit driven.
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