• Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    A lot of politicians live to be around 100.
    It’s not better genetics, it’s access to socialized healthcare for a select group of individuals.
    My grandfather looked almost just like pictures of 99 year old Jimmy Carter from a few days ago when he passed away at 77 years old.
    Don’t get me wrong, Jimmy deserves every breath he takes and it’s sad he’s near the end.
    But it doesn’t give me hope that we’ll be rid of Trump anytime soon.

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      11 months ago

      It’s kind of the opposite of socialized healthcare, because it’s only available to a select few.

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        11 months ago

        How I meant it:
        Socialized healthcare = publicly funded.
        Universal healthcare = publicly funded and everyone gets it.

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          11 months ago

          I see where you’re coming from, but if you think of “socialized” as relating to socialism, it doesn’t hold up, because public funding is a feature of all governments, not just socialist ones.