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Proud Liberal Dem

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5. Another point that never seems to get brought up
Sun Jul 30, 2017, 11:38 AM
Jul 2017

What the hell is going to happen if a highly contagious plague hits the country and vast numbers of people are left without health insurance or the means to get treated? Now, even if you want to play the Republican game of "hate on the poor" and blame them for their own doom, what about the fact that if poor, uninsured people get infected and not treated, they will still exist long enough to infect more people, an outcome that could have been avoided if they could have gotten themselves somewhere to be quarantined, treated. And while we're talking about potential plagues, let's try to ignore the fact that Trump is wanting to cut the CDC budget.

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