I dont care what you choose to call it.
Taxpayers are paying for the healthcare of high ranking officials. These officials fight against the same kind of care for their taxpayers.
Is that fair?
Btw, reading the wiki link you posted, you really cut short on that quote didnt you?
Socialized medicine is a term used to describe a system for providing medical and hospital care for all at a nominal cost by means of government regulation of health services and subsidies derived from taxation.[1] It is used primarily and usually pejoratively in United States political debates concerning health care, because of the U.S. culture's historically negative associations with socialism.
Im guessing you just missed the last part by mistake.
In reality though, socialized healthcare, would be any kind of goverment subsidized healthcare. If you want it for everyone, like the rest of the developed world, you want universal healthcare.
Taxpayers are paying for entitlements for these guys, but are fighting to make sure, no one else gets the same entitlements. Thats just not fair.
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From your posts in this thread, it seems you are perfectly OK, with the goverment paying for healthcare, as long as the only benificiaries are high ranking officials and not the regular taxpayers. Is it so?
Edited by rbp, : No reason given.
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