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Ford_Prefect

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8. It has been an article of faith among the GOP that ordinary people who get sick

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Apr 16, 2025, 05:55 PM

Apr 2025

Do not deserve care of any kind. This Dickensian Dogma goes back to a time before unions, before the New Deal and the Great Society, when only the wealthy could afford medical care.

The caveat being that the poor who are sick should die and decrease the excess population.