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Old 10-09-2009, 10:54 AM   #38 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by verklingen View Post
how is providing a public health insurance option for people without insurance a government power grab? seriously, someone needs to fucking answer because it's regurgitated ad nauseum with absolutely no basis
Because you need copious amounts of power to enact a national healthcare system. You need trillions of dollars and you need to enact and enforce a pleathora of new laws which ultimately translate into restrictions (i.e. losses of freedoms for some individuals). That is power grabbing on a historical level.
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