Amber Fraley
Jul 15, 2022

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Yeah, you're right. I misread your comment. You didn't say doctors don't get paid. But I don't understand how healthcare is a "privilege." Back in the Founders' Day, sure, healthcare was a privilege because they barely had a concept of health care. Today we understand that it's cruel to leave someone untreated. I'm not sure why you're calling it a "positive right"--because it costs money and requires someone else to step in? We don't leave someone hit by a car to die in the street without assistance because that's just unethical in a modern, civil society. How is that NOT a basic right?

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Amber Fraley
Amber Fraley

Written by Amber Fraley

Writing about abortion rights, mental illness, trauma, narcissistic abuse & survival, politics. Journalist, novelist, wife, mom, Kansan, repro rights activist.

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