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    Pope Francis‏Verified account @Pontifex Oct 25

    Health is not a consumer good, but a universal right: let us unite our efforts so that health services are available to all. #HealthForAll

    4:30 AM - 25 Oct 2018
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    967 replies 11,434 retweets 41,447 likes
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      2. Christopher M‏ @chris00nj Oct 25
        Replying to @Pontifex

        Access to healthcare is a right, but you can't demand that someone else provides a service to you for free.

        29 replies 4 retweets 91 likes
      3. Tim.‏ @AComicNerd Oct 25
        Replying to @chris00nj @Pontifex

        Healthcare would not be free because governments put in place a system of revenue and payment that is allocated proportionally, often referred to as “taxes.”

        9 replies 2 retweets 132 likes
      4. Christopher M‏ @chris00nj Oct 25
        Replying to @AComicNerd @Pontifex

        If everyone in healthcare decided to quit, who would provide your care? If healthcare is a right then do you have to able to force them to work? You have the right to a free press, but government won’t pay for your printing press.

        14 replies 2 retweets 46 likes
      5. Tim.‏ @AComicNerd Oct 25
        Replying to @chris00nj @Pontifex

        What? I don’t know how to respond to this bc it makes no sense. By this argument nothing is a right because we’ve placed profit into everything

        4 replies 2 retweets 75 likes
      6. Christopher M‏ @chris00nj Oct 25
        Replying to @AComicNerd @Pontifex

        A right is something you are able to do freely, not something someone else has to provide to you with their time, talent, and treasure.

        11 replies 1 retweet 34 likes
      7. Tim.‏ @AComicNerd Oct 25
        Replying to @chris00nj @Pontifex

        So what do you consider a right?

        6 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
      8. Tim.‏ @AComicNerd Oct 25
        Replying to @AComicNerd @chris00nj @Pontifex

        The idea of “rights” are based on a social contract among people in a shared society.

        4 replies 0 retweets 41 likes
      9. Chico‏ @ChicoChicoChico Oct 25
        Replying to @AComicNerd @chris00nj @Pontifex

        For those who reject transcendent God, right is merely a social contract. Can be changed. For those who believe in God, rights flows from God. Right to life, right to fair share of resources, right to dignity, etc evince in right to health

        2 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
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      2. Eric Hanson‏ @ehanson Oct 25
        Replying to @Pontifex

        No one has a “right to health”. Everyone has a right to pursue their best interests which include health and by extension healthcare. These are vastly different things. A right to healthcare is a right to the time and talent of another person which is slavery.

        79 replies 7 retweets 151 likes
      3. Laurie B‏ @LaurieBark Oct 25
        Replying to @ehanson @Pontifex

        Lol. If the doctors are there by choice and getting paid, it isn’t slavery. Nice try though! 👍

        8 replies 2 retweets 80 likes
      4. Eric Hanson‏ @ehanson Oct 25
        Replying to @LaurieBark @Pontifex

        If you can demand that anyone provides a product or service the person who must comply is no longer a free person. Think it through.

        16 replies 0 retweets 27 likes
      5. Martin Photo Artist‏ @mspilker Oct 25
        Replying to @ehanson @LaurieBark @Pontifex

        Again..The providers are getting paid..for 100% of every patient in all Universal Healthcare Systems. You have no clue as to what slavery is.

        7 replies 2 retweets 62 likes
      6. Sarah Pinkelman‏ @sarah_royalty Oct 25
        Replying to @mspilker @ehanson and

        The demand is a demand of the state, not a doc. A demand that the insulin I need to live is not completely controlled by corporate interest, square in the camp of commodity. It is our job as citizens to demand this as a right.

        3 replies 0 retweets 16 likes
      7. John Hartley‏ @Benwhitealright Oct 25
        Replying to @sarah_royalty @mspilker and

        It's your job to make healthy dietary choices that don't lead to diabetes, and it's your right to purchase health insurance. You don't have a right to the labor of others.

        3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Laurie B‏ @LaurieBark Oct 25
        Replying to @Benwhitealright @sarah_royalty and

        Hey smarty, not all diabetes is caused by poor diet/lack of exercise.pic.twitter.com/WpieLkzREx

        0 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
      9. End of conversation
      1. New conversation
      2. Labros Dimopoulos‏ @LabrosDimopoul1 Oct 25
        Replying to @Pontifex

        “Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.”  ST. AUGUSTINE

        1 reply 20 retweets 96 likes
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      2. Karen Sandoval‏ @karenlynnn Oct 25
        Replying to @Pontifex

        Papa. Fix your church.

        10 replies 1 retweet 75 likes
      3. Friar Tuck‏ @tomyarborough Oct 25
        Replying to @karenlynnn @Pontifex

        He is taking great strides in righting wrongs that were perpetrated, in some cases, 5 decades ago.

        2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
      4. Hans‏ @Hans2hans Oct 25
        Replying to @tomyarborough @karenlynnn @Pontifex

        1. Universal right to health care? Universal right to food? Sure. But someone has to pay, and the church is conspicuously silent on these "minor details." I am tired of sanctimonious priests sitting back and doing nothing to help with the problem but telling me what I ...

        3 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
      5. Friar Tuck‏ @tomyarborough Oct 25
        Replying to @Hans2hans @karenlynnn @Pontifex

        https://www.businessinsider.com/mercer-2016-quality-of-living-worldwide-city-rankings-2016-5 …

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      6. Friar Tuck‏ @tomyarborough Oct 25
        Replying to @tomyarborough @Hans2hans and

        All have universal health care. You see any American cities there?

        1 reply 2 retweets 7 likes
      7. Hans‏ @Hans2hans Oct 29
        Replying to @tomyarborough @karenlynnn @Pontifex

        Yet you still live in USA Friar? Is there a reason you haven't moved?

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. End of conversation

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