The United States is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not have a universal health care system. I guess all those other countries are socialist, huh?

I don't get this personal responsibility jazz. If that were the case, none of us would have health insurance at all. You wouldn't have a plan. We'd all just pay out of pocket. Why do you make your employer pay part of your insurance? Pay it yourself, you good-for-nothing! The "I've got mine" attitude of the right wing nuts is stunning. They're all against government intervention until they're the ones left out in the cold.

I have excellent health care benefits through my employer, but what happens if they go out of business tomorrow? Too bad, so sad if I get hit by a truck, get cancer, or some other catastrophic illness for which I can't pay out of pocket? I should have been more responsible and not gotten cancer? I should have saved up a few hundred thousand to pay for my healthcare?

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If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition, and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

- Stephen Colbert.