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In reply to the discussion: IF YOU BELIEVE UNIVERSAL SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE IS A RIGHT CHECK IN! [View all]Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)144. I just don't understand how we don't have at least 95% of Americans for universal health care?
Even fairly well to do families have to worry about health care. Makes no sense to me, they are already paying for the health care of others, why not make it better and more cost effective?
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IF YOU BELIEVE UNIVERSAL SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE IS A RIGHT CHECK IN! [View all]
gopiscrap
Aug 2013
OP
absolutely. Single payer health care, free education for all, and living wages!!!!
liberal_at_heart
Aug 2013
#1
Yes, quite rhetorical. Nothing like a person dying for care that brings out the deep thoughts.
Safetykitten
Aug 2013
#33
Self-evidently it currently *isn't* a right in the USA at present, but I think it probably should be
Donald Ian Rankin
Aug 2013
#8
I don't think it's a right, but I do think enlightened societies should provide that
Pretzel_Warrior
Aug 2013
#9
Plan E--get the bloodsuckers out: just patients, providers, and Medicare, the way everyone likes it
MisterP
Aug 2013
#18
We had a big grocery strike in California a few years ago over health care....
Spitfire of ATJ
Aug 2013
#23
Some of the replies here are HILARIOUS! Well, when you think about it...uh...in a classical sense...
Safetykitten
Aug 2013
#28
I just don't believe it will ever happen. The greed is to entrenched in the for profit health
SammyWinstonJack
Aug 2013
#29
Yes. And the UPS decision brings us closer to a national consensus that we need single payer
JDPriestly
Aug 2013
#34
The more businesses that drop health insurance, the more people will recognize the universal need.nm
rhett o rick
Aug 2013
#157
Maybe not a "right" but a feature of a "first world" nation. The USA is not a first world nation.
hunter
Aug 2013
#38
I should be, but there are no "rights" unless you win them and can keep them. nt
Demo_Chris
Aug 2013
#45
if health care reform were serious, insurance at least would have been converted to non-profit
yurbud
Aug 2013
#65
If we can't afford to educate our children, to heal our sick or care for our elderly ...
Scuba
Aug 2013
#70
Health care and having good health is a right that everyone in this country must have,
bluestate10
Aug 2013
#72
Universal health care is a right. Single payer insurance is one of many ways to achieve it.
Recursion
Aug 2013
#87
Exactly. Whether you use single payer or a national health service like in the UK or
pampango
Aug 2013
#155
As my wife says: WITHOUT our health how the HELL do we Pursuit Life Liberty and Happiness?
diabeticman
Aug 2013
#91
I'M IN .. So how are we going to make this happen. Medicare does not pay for every cost.
YOHABLO
Aug 2013
#116
I just don't understand how we don't have at least 95% of Americans for universal health care?
Dustlawyer
Aug 2013
#144
Good thing we all voted for a POTUS who at least supports a Public Option!
NorthCarolina
Aug 2013
#146
UNIVERSAL SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE IS the only way our country survives the next 50 years
Vincardog
Aug 2013
#169
Kick for a civilized society where 'national security' actually means protecting American lives
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#182