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On 25-12-2009 14:27, somebody wrote:
> "Tim Cook" <z99### [at] gmail com> wrote in message
> news:4b341689$1@news.povray.org...
>> Warp wrote:
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>>> It still sounds to me like "rich people shouldn't get privileges just
>>> because they have more money, that's unfair". The word jealousy comes to
>>> mind.
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>> The general reaction I've observed from people in the US about this
>> whole healthcare debacle also boils down to "what's in it for ME?
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> That's a very, possibly the only, legitimate question.
Only in the US, on this side of the Atlantic things are different*.
Besides we take that 'ME' a bit wider, including more complicated
concepts like: If health care improves for a group I do not belong to
now, do I know people who do and might I one day be part of that group?
Indeed that Buxton index at work again.
* strangly often for religious reasons, but that is a different story.
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