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Old 06-20-2020, 04:23 PM
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[SIZE="3"]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?
Since this topic is primarily one of Covid which had a reference to universal healthcare as a better way of dealing with Covid, it seems appropriate to point out countries which have universal healthcare in which the healthcare system failed miserably. It also seems appropriate to show by contrast how the US healthcare system does not have the same limitations in terms of resources such that we had to resort to euthanasia in order to deal with the crisis. As to every US citizen having access to the same health care, can you provide any documentation that shows that a person in the US who showed up at a hospital with Covid was denied treatment?

To put it another way, would you rather be a poor 80 year old person with Covid in the US or a middle class 80 year old person with Covid in Sweden? That's what universal healthcare in Sweden has given their citizens.