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As an aside, this seems like another one of those issues where one of the major stumbling blocks is party affiliation as personal identifier. It's a phenomenon I've noticed repeatedly in politics, and in American politics in particular.
Republicans as individuals feel they must oppose universal healthcare, because Republicans as a party oppose it. Republicans as a part oppose it seemingly because Democrats as a party favour it.
And of course the same is true across the aisle, or however the Yanks phrase that.
But the United States of America is the only developed nation that doesn't have universal healthcare to my knowledge, and all of the evidence that I'm able to find at least shows that you're worse for it.
Republicans as a party and as individuals don't seem to be able to reconcile this with their mandated opposition. So we end up talking about tables and murders and horses instead.
This discussion stopped being productive several pages ago.
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I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
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