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Originally Posted by Antitrust32
the people from back in the day when the constitution was written were lucky if they made it to 40.
If we wanted free, socialized medicine in this country everyone would have to be taxed at 50% or even higher. We'd have to wipe out capitalism and replace it with socialism. I'd rather be ruled by the individual than ruled by the state.
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Nobody said it would be "free"
A single-payer system isn't, in my view, "socialized medicine", as a national health care system could be. Those two things are quite different. I am in favor of the former, not the latter.
That does not require "socialism", as we provide that, as a democratic republic, right now with Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIPS. So no "socialism" necessary.
And even completely free health care wouldn't require taxes at 50% of income or higher. It doesn't in any socialized national medicine system that I am aware of now (if you know of one, bring it up)
BTW, the definition of socialism, a term commonly misused, is: a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the
ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole; a procedure or practice in accordance with this theory.
Even nationalized health care isn't "socialism".