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It's certainly a politicized issue.
Republicans seem to be more satisfied with the status quo than the idea of an actual universal plan that covers everyone. They help maintain this status quo by demonizing the concept of a single-payer system as outright socialism.
This despite such a system managed and defended by liberals and conservatives alike.
This despite the significant support for such a system by those in the medical field, such as physicians.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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