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Pre Existing Conditions Speaks To All Americans

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by pgabriel, Oct 30, 2020.

  1. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    Yet you continue to dick ride. So whatever i dont respond to you so proof is in the pudding i dont give a **** or think about you like you think about me
     
  2. heypartner

    heypartner Contributing Member

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    yeah, many people conflate natural rights and inalienable rights with citizen rights

    Maybe a simplistic way to strike a difference is the Inalienable Rights Jefferson described in the Declaration of Independence vs the Bill of Rights
     
  3. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    Freedom could be given in ancient Babylon

    Police protection could have been given in ancient Egypt

    Ancient Rome was a republic

    In which one of those places could you receive a coronary angioplasty?receive
     
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    Rileydog Contributing Member

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    thats fine. You don’t have to respond or even accept it, but my apology stands. I think multiple people here were struggling to follow what you are saying, thus I realized it wasn’t cool to be dickish about it.
     
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  5. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    Dont give a ****. Dont take any dick riding seriously. Others understand even though after ASSuming. Why would i give a **** about you understanding

    Dud i alert you in the o.p.? You cant even help yourself

    I do like calling dick riding out. Jesus i know somebody thinks about me. Just read what Riley wrote
     
  6. Phillyrocket

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    I haven’t read all 5 pages of this thread to see if it’s been mentioned but the government made healthcare a right in 1986 when Reagan signed EMTALA.

    That law gave everyone the right to service in the ER for free which has led to billions in uncompensated care annually which of course has led to increased costs to those that do pay via their insurance. Which led to higher and higher premiums.

    Health insurance as a concept is a farce because it cannot follow the same rules as every other insurance pool. Primarily because of preexisting conditions and not everyone who has claims pays premiums. (Medicaid and the uninsured.)

    The sooner this country gets over their insipid socialism boogeyman and joins the rest of the civilized world with universal healthcare the better off we will be.
     
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    If you went to a temple of Asclepius you could receive the best medical service available free of charge. Including surgeries.
    It's where Hippocrates and Galen served.
     
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    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    That doesn't answer the question.

    If there were no doctors could their services be guranteed. Im pretty sure there were doctors in the 60s so that doesn't answer the question.
     
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    If there are doctors without borders how can we find their offices?
     
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    It was a temple bro not a doctors office
     
  12. heypartner

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    Trust me: It wasn't clear you were making a point about political strategy

    It would have been clearer had you started with the last sentence in your OP, and followed with "And that selling point should be ... blah blah"

    I can see why you started with talking about what a Right is because the selling point was Discrimination based on pre-existing or not. Abd then you're saying the Dems shouldn't muddy the political debate with what a Right is. But in that tangent about what a Right Is and Isn't you muddied the waters about what this thread is about ... :)

    In that effort you buried your main point at the end, and didn't even complete it there. Rather your one mention of "discrimination" is in a hard to follow sentence.

    can you see now from our eyes that we were confused what main point was
     
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    The government cannot guarantee any service if people were not willing to take on the vocation. That includes the military, police, firefighters, etc.

    We wouldn’t even have a government to guarantee services if people didn’t want to be government employees.

    If your argument is that healthcare cannot be a right because what if there are no doctors to force to serve; then the same argument can be made that nothing is a right without people to do the job.
     
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    Siri has no borders, but she might mistakenly lead you straight into a border wall by mistake
     
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    The government should guarantee certain services.
     
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    Government can't make science.
     
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    Yes they should but following OPs logic they cannot if no one wants to provide them.
     
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    so? They hadn't invented offices yet and operated from temples.

    Free healthcare for all
     
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    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    Greek slaves could go to Hippocrates?
     
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    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    Government existence is for security. If there was no security there would not be a government

    So yes it HAS TO PROVIDE SECURITY
     

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