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So help me, if I hear one more progressive tell me that opposing State healthcare is equivalent to letting people die in the streets: VA HC!— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 28, 2017
Opposing government healthcare, by, of, and for the bureaucrats, is NOT the same as opposing healthcare! Free the private sector & charities— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 28, 2017
State-provided healthcare, like the VA system. won't have veterans dying in the streets. You can die waiting in a queue from your own home.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 28, 2017
Somehow, despite food being a necessity of life, people aren't starving in the streets without government-operated supermarkets.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 28, 2017
Look at govt regulations: no, you can't distribute govt cheese if you have a cross on the wall, health dept must inspect your donations, etc— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 28, 2017
Progressives worry that feeding the homeless will only encourage them; a Maryland church was fined for providing shelter.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 28, 2017
Telling a hungry poor person, "No, you can't have that donated food--too much salt", is like bombing a village to "save" it.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) February 28, 2017
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(National Review thread on "The New Nationalism continued)Trump isn't a conservative. Good. I don't want ideologues holding office ever. Apparently the American people don't want that either. And as for conservatism, as a Republican I rarely agree. We should be finding ways to reach new heights not chain ourselves to the past.
[Troll], At least you're honest enough to admit you are an unprincipled bastard. No, Trump never won a majority in the primaries until it was down to 3 remaining, and he did it in the heavily "liberal/moderate" Northeast; the conservatives basically split the vote. Trump used $2B of free press coverage and essentially bought the GOP nomination. He also got the lowest percentage of the popular vote as a GOP nominee since 1996 when Perot won 8%. The nation got a Trump v Clinton choice that almost everyone agreed sucked as a choice between 2 evils--the two most unfavorable candidates since they started polling.
As for your uneducated assessment of conservatism, you have a more European notion. America has a classically liberal heritage; we believe in more freedom, less government, and we are on a fiscally unsustainable course.
(Pro-Life Libertarians thread on healthcare continued)
[A progressive troll argues that by opposing government healthcare, I want people to die in the streets.]
[Troll], you don't have the slightest clue what you're talking about. There are CHARITY HOSPITALS (e.g., St. Judes, etc.), which operate precisely as I described. In a more general way, most, if not all hospital do provide some limited "charitable" support. What happened after ObamaCare under the arrangement you're describing, many, if not most, hospitals actually cut such programs, figuring they would recapture those costs under the individual mandates.
If you go back before the federal government started prostituting with health care intervention, you'll find that people weren't "dying in the streets"; healthcare was more affordable because you didn't have various mandates, etc. Healthcare is like any other market; markets evolve to serve customers. Just like capitalism has done more to eradicate poverty than any other factor, it can and will do the same--and you need to free charitable institutions in the private sector from government meddling.
The difference between us is you believe in the Fascist State which has NEVER delivered, and I believe in the free market, which functions by actually delivering what people need and want.
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