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Originally Posted by JCricket
My point, a person cannot survive without food, yet it is a commodity. Medical care is generally far less needed for individuals. You have the flu you want to see the doc, but will likely get better without it.
So, if food is a commodity, why should healthcare be a right? My opinion, both should be a commodity, but both should be regulated too. I am not sure how it would work though.
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Everything is a commodity if one has to pay for it. And if something is a commodity, there has to be profitable enterprises to provide it. The only thing that is not a commodity is basic education that is free and mandatory with the intent that this will provide the tools for people to participate in a for profit system.
Then came Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid which Ryan and company would love to eliminate including the free schooling.
The only way to accomplish this is by brainwashing the population that somehow this is for the overall good. Healthcare II failed in this regard.