• The Rizzler@feddit.org
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    1 month ago

    What? Americans were supposed to be getting healthcare from the government? Since when?

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      Since day 1:

      certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

      Can’t survive, let alone pursue happiness, without healthcare and can’t have liberty without either.

      mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

      But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government

      You are here.

      Source: transcription of the US Declaration of Independence