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From your own linked propaganda, "Thousands of people are dying every year thanks to Britain's health service not delivering the standards people expect and receive in other European countries."So, the other European countries that are setting the desirable standards - are they following the US model for healthcare? Is that the goal?I've got a donut. Do you have a dollar?I'm not surprised by your Pavlovian response.

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No one is expecting ONE doctor to serve the entire nation or even an entire city, just like no one expects ONE police department to service an entire nation or city. However, there could definitely be ONE entity that pays those doctors for their services, just like there is ONE entity that pays for police departments.I am not understanding the distinction you're trying to make here.

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Buy your own island then.

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This is so stupid... it's like saying for every person that dies in a terrorist attack, so and so number of people die in a car accident, or old age, or choking, etc, etc...

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America, cmon people, even if you dont have healthcare, the hospitals still take you! what is the point of taxing me and my business to death, just so some hobo's (who most likely dropped out of school because they didn't give a s**t about life anyway) some medicine they need for the sickness they get for having 17 black kids from 12 different fathers. You think I want to support those worthless wasted lives?The kids who do want to get a good life have a free education already, what more do they want? Affirmitive action will get them into any college fully paid, and they will be hired instantly. Those hobo's don't NEED healthcare, they don't.

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Terrorists take away our health care, then attack the people who lose it.

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@Eugenetabisco"Our government is not set up to control the nation -- it is set up so that the people have a set of regulations..."What are regulations if not an attempt at legislating control?"..not falling for the propaganda put forth by those on Fox News."I don't watch Fox News."...if we leave things like healthcare in the hands of corporations and bottom lines then we are not ensuring that right because then only rich people will have the right to life."Is that how it's been throughout the history of private medicine? Seems to me if all the poor people were dying because only the rich had a right to life then there wouldn't be anymore poor people anymore. Between 1900 and 2006, life expectancy rose from just over 49 years to nearly 80 years. Those rich people must be living to 200 to offset the greater number of poor people dying out so early. Must be the more active lifestyles and healthy food everyone is eating these days."Poor people will have the right to death."Everyone should have the right to death. It is a necessary corollary to the right to life. If you truly have the right to life, you also have the right to end that life when you choose. "You obviously do not feel the need to belong to a democratic society."You refuse to notice the distinction between government and society? Fine, I'll bite. You're right, I do not feel the need to belong to a democratic society. And if you think that is what our government is, you are thinking about it in the wrong way too. Our government is a constitutional republic. If you are unclear on the differences I suggest you do some reading."You want to set your own laws and boundaries regardless of anyone else."Really? From where did you get that? I've already recognized every individual's sovereign right to his or her own body and labor. That is more than your government has done. What you believe the government should do defines people only as a part of a society and not as the individuals they are."You also have the opportunity to fight such laws..."You say that I have the right to fight against laws that I don't believe in. Considering that if I choose not to follow the laws that govern what I may and may not do, I must fight (and I presume you do not mean with violence, though the initiation of aggression was already committed by government), how is that not the government forcing me to behave in an involuntary manner?

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