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"I'm sorry to hear you feel under attack, Gina. If I may be generous to our position I would suggest that we are merely pointing out that you chaps are been hooned royally, and you deserve better. I like America, and I'm pleased we're allies, but that doesn't mean I ignore your problems, I get stuck into them with gusto, as any friend should. \n  \nI have two close friends who are in the NHS, one as a nurse, the other as a doctor. There are some reasons why I support it, even when I see people taking the mickey out of the system.  \n  \n1. Emotionally - because I still feel compassion for halfwits. And I am proud that we as a nation have the capacity to absorb their needs \n2. Selfishly - because all the evidence I see tells me it's cheaper for me personally even though I could choose to buy my own insurance \n3. Selfishly - because I don't need to worry about what happens to me, I have 100% cover and no-one is trying to defraud me of it \n4. Socially - You can't work if you are sick or injured. If people are to be expected to work it helps if they can count on this basic enabler \n  \n  \nI regard the current US system as the antithesis of this. Taxing the rich has nothing to do with it. It's common sense (at least until Aristes mounts his counter to these points). \n  \nTo answer your other point I know you people have this notion of right and social justice coming from hard work, but anyone who tells you luck doesn't play a big part is full of poop, IMO. ESPECIALLY if common injury plays a part. That is, after all, why they are called accidents. \n"
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