Re: David Cross on Health Care

> Well first, we are not a democratic republic, we are a representative
Republic.
> Yes, a minor nit, but it actually means something when you consider that we as
> people do not vote on national legislation, and any remedy to our legislatures
> who do something we disapprove of is often years away from the legislation.
> This is a fact that they count on, that we often have short memories.

Um, thanks for that, but it doesn't get us any closer to why the
assessment was unfair.

**sure it does.  A democratic republic would imply we the people have direct
access to the decisions making.  We don’t.


> Second, this begins with the premise that we have to assume that universal
> health care has anything to do with Christians values in the first place.
> Universal health care has NOTHING to do with ending suffering.  That whole
> argument is a faulty premise.

Who said anything about "ending suffering?"

**Cross.

: "Here's a simple question: Where are the Christians? Where are the fucking
Christians during all of this? The idea of universal health care seems to me the
most basic, at its core, Christian belief. You take care of people who can't
afford to take care of themselves.

***You don't let them suffer.*** It seems very Christian. Where the fuck are
they?":


***maybe I paraphrased it, but not by much.

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