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Strange - health care is like a civil right, unless they have money then its an excuse to fleece people? Do I have that right?

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It’s a right, like defence, policing and education. It gets paid for by those that work hardest/smartest/longest. The Tory plan was to get those that benefited from unearned gained in wealth to pay for it too.

Hm. Or paid for by those that happen to have interest on accounts, and do nothing for it.

Anyway, we decide on civil rights because we're a just society, not out of some column on a financial ledger. They should be separate issues.

The idea was the country would increase funding for the elderly, and increase taxation on the rich. This was rejected, mainly by rich old people.

That is how I read it, maybe there is a subtlety I am missing.

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