After reading the word or phrase behind the cut, please write your very first thought(s) and send it to me in a comment. Thank you very much! socialized medicine
"I would rather live in the second, or fifth, or twentieth weathiest country in the world, and not have to step over people every morning on my way to work, than live in the wealthiest nation on the globe, knowing that our wealth leaves a blazing trail of human wreckage in its wake."
--Me, in 2000, at the peak of the dot-com boom, in response to a co-worker decrying a publicly funded SF clinic for street people as 'the first step toward socialized medicine.'
Amen brotha! It is astounding, isn't it? I'm trying to understand the American knee-jerk about "socialized medicine". Why is it such a bad word to so many people??
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Date: 2007-12-12 07:02 am (UTC)--Me, in 2000, at the peak of the dot-com boom, in response to a co-worker decrying a publicly funded SF clinic for street people as 'the first step toward socialized medicine.'
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Date: 2007-12-13 01:52 am (UTC)It is astounding, isn't it?
I'm trying to understand the American knee-jerk about "socialized medicine". Why is it such a bad word to so many people??