Reply to "America's Health Care System"

Theoretically we live in a very sophisticated democracy where sometimes the masses permit a very few to become wealthy under the thought that it benefits us all with a trickle down effect. I can't remember seeing much of that within any recent times.
I wonder if that argument even holds any water any more?

-- Never invested in a business? or the stock market? 401k? I'd say it definitely holds water.

Then there was this little disagreement amongst the states that basically was over whether one human being had the right to own another. A lot of people refer to it as the US Civil War. I think you can Google that or maybe follow up on the history channel a little?

-- You need to watch the History Channel a little closer. The Civial War wasn't about one human being owning another. It was about the ability of a state to make that determination. That little thing called State's Rights - all powers not enumerated to the government are passed on to the states.

I know that I now feel that all Americans should have a right, an unalienable right to decent health care regardless of where it comes from, and if that makes me a radical, then so be it.

-- All Americans have a right to be able to seek decent health care. What gives the government the right to take money from me and give it to a single individual for their use? Why should I have to pay for someone who is a drug abuser? an alcoholic? morbidly obese? engages in high risk unprotected sex? As someone has said - they have no skin in the game.

I'm in good company with these other arrogant, leftist
Americans like Jefferson, Lincoln and maybe even FDR and it makes me feel good about myself. I understand that it isn't easy being a leader like Jefferson and that it is difficult to separate some concepts from pre existing conditions like slavery without a little discomfort, and that those that you are attempting to persuade to see your point are also your fellow Americans, and you stood shoulder to shoulder with in the foxhole, but sometimes they actually have to take their heads out of their asses.

-- I think Jefferson and FDR would be diametrically opposed in their ideologies

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