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“polls show that 34% of americans will vote for–”

As a statistician, these are EXACTLY the questions you should ask when interpreting a poll.

I can't stop crying. Never let our government reach the point where they get to decide if and where you can get treatment for your child. God help us.

"The Bambino Gesù, which is run by the Vatican, has offered to treat other terminally ill British infants in the past, such as Alfie Evans in 2018 and Charlie Gard in 2017, both of whom were ultimately denied the chance to travel to Italy by U.K. courts and died days after being removed from life support."

You know what's the most sick thing about this? Her disease was treatable. There are treatments that extend lifespan to near-normal ranges. Children in the US are three and five and nine and twenty and there is no set lifespan except she didn't need to die yet.

AFTER someone else agreed to foot the bill.

Actually I'm against "universal healthcare" because it was (and still is!) used in authoritarian regimes to commit ethnic cleansing and forced sterilization. When the government is in charge of healthcare, they can and will use it to eliminate groups of people they consider undesirable and this includes poor people.

Universal healthcare is a good thing. Bad governments are bad.

"IF yoU DoNt SuPpOrt UnIvErSaL HeaLthCarE, yOu ThInK PeOplE dEseRvE tO DiE! RRRRRRRREEEEE!"

"Hey, can we talk about how hospitals price gouge?"

Thanks @mysticdeputycowboyfire for this heads up.

"But it won't actually succeed!"

“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.”