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In article <boISkKlrZo0G070yn@gagme.wwa.com> whitroth@gagme.wwa.com (mark) writes:
>In article <il5ov*+F3@caleb.UUCP>, jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) wrote:
>> Would you guys please give this MYTH a rest!  Every American now has access
>> to healthcare.  It has been so for a long time.  I wish that people would
>> quit spouting this nonsense.
>
>The only nonsense I see here is "Every American now has access to 
>healthcare." How about my friend, last year, who got pregnant and
>had no healthcare? She worked, and made too much to be on welfare.

Sorry, but "access" and "for free" aren't the same things.  "Access"
is defined by Webster's as "capacity to enter or approach".

Poor people have "access" to expensive restaurants.  They just aren't
likely to be able to afford to eat in them.  Prior to the civil rights
movement, blacks lacked "access" to white establishments since they
had no legal "capacity to enter or approach" in many states.  Since
then their "access" is unrestricted (except for certain sleaze-bag
outfits )-;.

>Since one exists, then, by elementary logic, your statement is untrue.

No, Jim's statement is correct.  You are using Orwellian doublespeak to
make "access" mean "for free".

>Anybody else notice that almost all the folks arguing against healthcare
>reform are from Texas? The state that has no income tax, and some of
>the poorest schools, and poorest safety nets, in the country?

This article is being cross-posted to tx.politics and Texas is one of
the largest states in the nation, both by population and size.
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