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In reply to the discussion: Obama's second term: A productive six months. [View all]LWolf
(46,179 posts)You just "don't address" them.
Although I do agree with the things you've said, to a point. Obama says health care is a right. It takes legislation and action to make it so. It took legislation and action to establish Obamacare. All true.
Of course, Obamacare does not establish health care as a right. It establishes the mandate to buy insurance. We already have the right to pay for health care when and if we can afford to do so. That's not health care as a right; that's health care as a commodity.
It will take legislation and action to establish a single-payer system, it's true. That's why it's a fucking travesty that it was kept off the table so that mandatory for-profit health insurance could be fobbed off on us instead.
We might have gotten a bit closer if it had at least been allowed at the table. Anyone who believes that "health care is a right" wouldn't exclude options that actually result in authentic "affordable care."