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I disagree with your idea of basic health care being a fundamental right because its flat out wrong. By definition a fundamental right is a right that has its origin in a country's constitution or that is necessarily implied from the terms of that constitution. Nowhere in the US constitution does it mention right to free or affordable health care, I think you are confusing a fundamental right with moral obligation.
By stating that America has a socialized med system already I was referring to how everyone who is need of medical treatment gets in by going to the hospital even if they don't have insurance they will still be treated and who ends up paying for it? Everyone else, hence my statement.
While I do agree that our health system needs some help, trust me I heard it growing up since both my parent are physicians, part of the blame needs to be put on the American public themselves. We aren't the healthiest bunch by our own doing, many are obese obese, smoke, drink excessively, eat at fast food joints everyday, sit in front of the TV/internet all day, never exercise?
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