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Topic: Massachusetts health care coverage is a right?  (Read 454 times)
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« on: July 14, 2004, 08:13:55 PM »
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Lawmakers on Wednesday took a step toward making Massachusetts the first state to make comprehensive and affordable health care a constitutionally protected right.

The proposed amendment to the state's constitution was approved during a joint session of the House and Senate. If approved a second time during the 2005-2006 legislative session, the question will go before voters in 2006.

The amendment states that "it shall be the obligation and duty of the Legislature and executive officials ... to enact and implement such laws as will ensure that no Massachusetts resident lack comprehensive, affordable and equitably financed health insurance coverage for all medically necessary preventive, acute and chronic health care and mental health care services, prescription drugs and devices."

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Well, all hail the People's Republic of Massachusetts!  Since we can't "vote them off the nation," then I say just let 'em do it.  First gay marriage, now socialized medicine.  What's next...guaranteed annual income...abortion "stamps"...reparations?  We think we are witnessing illogic in action, but in reality we are looking at a culture (in opposition to our own) that is so disconnected from reality that the downside of these laws doesn't even occur to most of them.  They see this as liberating individuals from the oppression of the dominant culture.

Fools...they have mistaken viable social order for oppression.  Let this experiment run its course, but for God's sake let's not bail them out when the time comes.  They should stew in their own juices (just like Europe).
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