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Originally Posted by Rekna
provide and promote are not mutually exclusive terms....
promote could easily mean providing a public option to compete against private options in order to bring down prices and increase the quality of health care. The government does not want to take over healthcare, they are simply trying to provide more competition.
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You have a good point, and while there is definitely merit to that, what happens if all other healthcare can't compete and gov't healthcare is the only one left standing? Is the gov't going to take itself to court over its self-imposed monopoly?
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Originally Posted by Derwood
Call me un-American, but I'm not terribly interested in what rich white slave owners 200+ years ago had to say about health care.
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Yes, I would agree that you are un-American in that respect. They had nothing to say about health care because it didn't exist back then. That fact that they were white, or slave owners, or that they wore funny looking hairpieces has nothing to do with the historic thought processes that went through their heads.