What I learned from asking struggling people back home in Ohio: Do you think health care is a right? @NewYorkerhttp://bit.ly/2fKThc0
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It triggers bitter feelings over who is deserving and who is not – i.e., who is valued and who is not. /3
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But nearly all supported Medicare. Why? Because it’s less about a right than: We all contribute and we all benefit as equals. /4
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Friend wrote to note: the fight for marriage rights (what you must give me) irked; the fight for marriage equality (what we share) won. /5
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Points the way forward: the fight is less for health care rights than for health care equality -- insuring all lives have equal worth. /6
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ACA growing support as it helps working class w equal protections for pre-existing conditions, under 26 coverage, limits on cost-sharing. /7
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But I saw: Dems still lack trust that they value the lives and voices of the working class equally. That trust must be built. /8
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My bet: trust grows w showing ways people, over an 85+ yr life, can contribute and benefit more equally for basic needs like health /End
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but they could lose their job and be the poor person who needs medicaid tomorrow. That's the whole idea.
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If healthcare is reformed properly then this silliness of deductibles etc should stop for everyone!
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That’s why it needs changed. If everyone pays like in the UK then everyone can use it. These deductibles etc are ridiculous.
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