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A right to health care? wrong!

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Years of debating liberal friends and colleagues has brought me to an understanding: This question is at the core of the debate. The absurd notion of a right to health care underlies the movement towards socialized medicine. If this right does exist, it becomes a moral imperative to guarantee it for all, i.e. universal coverage.

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