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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
- John Kenneth Galbraith


https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnkennet107301.html?src=t_conservative
The hard right is delusional on the point. And most of the countries who spend far less of their GDP manage to cover everyone who needs healthcare. We leave millions without propping up a failing system.
 

patrick jane

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An example of Universal healthcare. What other lifestyles and choices we make will get denied healthcare?

The British National Health Service (NHS) has provoked a firestorm by temporarily banning surgeries on people who smoke and those who are obese. Patients who smoke must quit for at least eight weeks before non-urgent surgery, and obese people must lose weight before the NHS gives the go-ahead.


http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/10/nhs_bans_surgeries_for_smokers_obese_people.html
 

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An example of Universal healthcare.
Like suggesting there's only one sort of democracy, or one sort of Republican.

The move is being opposed by the Royal College of Surgeons and doesn't bar urgent medical attention.

What other lifestyles and choices we make will get denied healthcare?
We aren't citizens of that empire and we can determine our own rules. Though to be fair, it doesn't look like the Brits are going to put up with it either.
 
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