If the improper use of a noun as an adjective to label a type of liberal amounts to name calling, then the use of the adjective "hysterical" in your first line counts equally. But I'm not here to play grammar police nor to keep a running tally.
I genuinely believe the existance of government run healthcare is a violation of human rights, thus the reason I'm so opposed to it. We have differing opinions of the government's role and differing opinions of what amounts to an Individual Right. But you assume too much if you believe I'm entirely opposed to any form of a (voluntary) governmental safety net. We'll never have a purist system, which would amount to a conservative utopia, and I'm not a libertarian.
As for a socialist... the door to that is through redistribution of wealth. A totalitarian regime or dictatorship could have public healthcare as easily as a democracy or democratic republic. Basing an opinion of socialism purely off government healthcare without looking at any other governmental piece would thereby be dependant on how it's funded.
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Date: 2009-10-10 12:22 am (UTC)I genuinely believe the existance of government run healthcare is a violation of human rights, thus the reason I'm so opposed to it. We have differing opinions of the government's role and differing opinions of what amounts to an Individual Right. But you assume too much if you believe I'm entirely opposed to any form of a (voluntary) governmental safety net. We'll never have a purist system, which would amount to a conservative utopia, and I'm not a libertarian.
As for a socialist... the door to that is through redistribution of wealth. A totalitarian regime or dictatorship could have public healthcare as easily as a democracy or democratic republic. Basing an opinion of socialism purely off government healthcare without looking at any other governmental piece would thereby be dependant on how it's funded.