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malthaussen

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Thu Mar 27, 2014, 03:36 PM Mar 2014

You know what I hate about the Affordable Care Act?

Its very name validates the principle that human health -- and thus, by extension, human life -- is a commodity to be bought and sold.

Kind of barbaric, except barbarians don't usually have a money economy.

-- Mal

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You know what I hate about the Affordable Care Act? (Original Post) malthaussen Mar 2014 OP
In fairness, the care is a combination of goods and services, a commodity. NYC_SKP Mar 2014 #1
 

NYC_SKP

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1. In fairness, the care is a combination of goods and services, a commodity.
Thu Mar 27, 2014, 03:42 PM
Mar 2014

Just saying that if it read "Affordable Health Act" you'd be spot on.

Unfortunately, we live in a world where it takes care to be healthy and it has to cost somebody something.

Even in the most well managed plans in other countries, the services have costs.

It's really just a matter of how those costs are covered.

We have a ways to go, but this is progress.

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