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Originally Posted by NJblue

Having universal healthcare has nothing to do with the number of cases but it has a huge impact on the healthcare provided to those who contract Covid. There were massive outbreaks in Italy, Spain and Sweden, all with universal healthcare. Yet these countries had to resort to choosing who was to live and who was to die because of a healthcare system that could not cope with it. Yet, NYC, which had an even bigger outbreak had plenty of ventilators and hospital beds.

While progressives like to paint universal healthcare as a human right and an act of compassion, I urge anyone who may think along these lines to watch this Youtube of how universal healthcare in Sweden is dealing with Covid. As a summary, the government is not allowing anyone over 80 or anyone over 60 with comorbidities to go to the hospital. Instead, they are sent to the equivalent of hospices where they are are deprived of oxygen supplements and instead given drugs that eases the discomfort but which almost certainly guarantees death - in other words, it is government mandated euthanasia. Very compassionate, eh?

Of course, Governor Cuomo has his own cross to bear for the way he treated nursing home patients, but that has nothing to do with universal healthcare.

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In trying to abide with TOTV's policy of NO political references, let me just point out that our society, through programs, institutional policies and the ever-increasing wealth gap, has already chosen in a lot of ways as to who gets quality healthcare...and thus has a better/worse chance of dying or becoming seriously ill.

As a nation, why are so many afraid of leveling the playing field and allowing ALL American citizens...the same care?

Isn't THAT, at its core...the definition of being a "patriot?"