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Healthcare is neither a right nor a commodity. It is a service which you can exchange for something else...another service, food or....money.

I will die without food and water. But Walmart does not have to give it to me for free. Some governments have elected to provide this for free for some persons...but they did not always do this.

Recently, we've had 3 patients in where I or Dr C discussed "socialized medicine." Interestingly, the 2 patients that had the most exposure to socialized medicine (one Canadian and one woman whose fiance was immigrating from Britian) liked it the least. The other American really had not encountered the people that, say, couldn't get a renewal on their medication because they could not get an appoinmtent with the doctor for a month or more (granted, they had missed an appointment, but they had given notice in advance. They were out of the country since they were here.) They just thought that being able to get an appointment within 3 or 4 days with a new doctor was just phenominal.