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Yet another reason why government services in the US are a bad idea. They are ruled by local arbitrarily-capricious lunatics.

Universal health care will be the same disaster. Fight it tooth and nail. Protect your healthcare. Maybe you win the case where your son is denied an online advice nurse because he “yelled racial slurs” but it’s too late; maybe he’s terribly sick now, maybe he’s dead. You can sue them but you can’t bring him back.

Just like this kid’s grade is gone. He fails this one. And you can sue but he’s not going to get it back. The learning is gone.

Constantly beware those who arrogate to themselves great power over you.

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As opposed to private services? Have you ever had a medical bill that your insurance provider tried to deny coverage for?

Sure, but I know private schools are better about this so now you’re adding the horror of normal medical care in the US to this public services horror.

Twice the horror is hardly an appealing idea.

>Sure, but I know private schools are better about this

In my experience, private schools are much more likely to expel someone than public schools. At my private school they tried to work out who was writing prank reviews of the school online and threatened that they had requested the users IP from the review service. I'm guessing they failed when the IP was just the schools shared address.

Yeah, but I can go somewhere else, rather than be blackballed by the single system.

> Sure, but I know private schools are better about this

[citation needed]

Legally, private schools arr less constrained, because due process rights don’t apply.

Didn’t you just argue universal healthcare would be worse? I can’t imagine billing being worse than it already is.

And why would private schools be better in this regard?

> Maybe you win the case where your son is denied an online advice nurse because he “yelled racial slurs”

American corporations are notorious for engaging in thought policing. In your current system you’ll get fired and lose your health insurance for cracking your knuckles the wrong way.

This is an American problem, not a public vs. private problem.

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