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i would think that an adapted version of the french model (free access to basic health care, manditory insurance for more intensive care with price controls on insurance companies) would fit with your position quite nicely, otto.
the problem with debate in the states is that the alternative model is typically the english, which isn't anywhere near as good or as flexible as the french model.
free access to basic health care creates an incentive to be proactive---it pays for the system to keep folk out of the system--so the system is far more geared around proactive health care than is the american system.
if there's a moral question in this, it is at the level of how a society wants to be in general: i would think it far better to provide health care as a citizenship right than what we currently have---it provides some idea that capitalism produces something beyond commodities and infrstructure and profits and wage labor...something more like an advanced civilization.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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