Once you've decided not to let people "die in the streets" you've gone to "single payer," as a simple point of logic.
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Why do the Senators have a Cadillac plan? It would seem if you want healthcare for all it would start in Washington.
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WHaaaaaaat?
you mean showing actual leadership 
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We will get socialist medicine while the politicians get wonderful private care..
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I’m all for socialized medicine but let’s not get fast and loose with how we define ‘rights’. Shit that requires other people to do work is not a right. We as a society can decide to fund it and provide it, but it is very much a privilege.
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The framework that allows society to function in general - and empowers people to have rights they take for granted - requires work too. Healthcare for everyone can easily function within that framework.
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Not arguing it can't function in the framework of society. Arguing that it isn't a right as they are typically definted, and calling it that is unnecessary and counterproductive.
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If everyone should have it as a matter of course, I don't see why it shouldn't be considered a right. Poor health deeply damages countries and can preclude people from pursuing many (if not most) objectives. Eg "pursuit of happiness" (which has been recognized as a right)
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At that point the word ‘right’ is meaningless. Rights are generally things that others can’t take from you, not things they have to give you. Note the ‘pursuit of’ in your example. No one owes you happiness, but you shouldn’t be prevented from seeking it.
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If one is functionally prevented from seeking something by the broken setup of existing systems, how are they able to go about that particular right?
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Nothing is a right that costs other people money.
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K-12 education, the military, public defenders.
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All things where you can pay more in private sector and get access to a better product....
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Just say No to socialism.
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Health care is not a right as defined by the constitution. You want to make it a right, amend the constitution. The way people pay for healthcare is the issue. Anyone can be seen at the ER, even if they cannot pay. Congress allowed insurers to write the rules.
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So, go back and correct the mistakes you helped create. Allow insurers to sell across state lines. Make the "pre-existing conditions" exemption its own law. Stop writing laws that allow the Executive branch departments to write their own guidelines and regulations.
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Many of the lobbyists take full advantage of laws which allow the Dept of X to write "such regulations as shall be required to implement this section..." Lobbyists don't have to lobby Congress; they provide reports and experts to the Dept of X, helping write the rules.
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Congress has ceded power to the courts and the Executive branch by being lazy, not reading bills AND understanding what those bills so. Congress forgets that laws can be repealed or provisions of laws not funded in later budget years. Clean up the tax laws. Use your power.
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