I was wondering how much of this was true and how much was propaganda. If that is what France is really like maybe being a socialist country won't be so bad.

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Erick Bohndorf, Redeemer Presbyterian PCA
http://qayaqtraveler.blogspot.com/
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Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward. Ecclesiastes

Well it is pretty much what Denmark is like

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Martin - Reformed
Husband to the most godly, honorable and loyal wife Line
Searching for a Church
Webpage www.5solas.dk
Free Online Reformed Seminary - http://www.tnars.net
Soli Deo Gloria

Just don't outlive your usefulness to The State! Under a socialist welfare state, sooner or later those of us who are 'undesirable' will be done away with, one way or another.

I get great health care and so does my family. Hard work still pays off here in America.

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Rev. Toby L. Brown, pastor
Jefferson Center Presbyterian Church--in, but not of, the PC(USA)
Saxonburg, PA
A Classical Presbyterian
Proud member of The Westminster Fellowship

"The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which God is also highly exalted." --Jonathan Edwards

The Netherlands practices involuntary euthanasia on old, sick folks. So socialized medicine can be a young person's sport.

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Edward
Deacon
PCA
Texas

I remember at one point they were issuing "Don't kill me!" stickers in the Netherlands, since trigger-happy docs would otherwise pull the plug on hapless patients. Send me to Iceland with Bernard Marx; it's better than living under that sort of government.

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Kevin, husband of a truly angelic woman, and father to ten.
Zion United Reformed Church of Sheffield
Ontario, Canada

I haven't seen Sicko, but be careful what you wish for when it comes to socialized medicine - it has plenty of drawbacks. If you value universal coverage, meaning mediocre care for 100% of the population, then socialized medicine is the way to go. If you value excellent care for 80% of the population and mediocre to no care for the rest, then the American system is the way to go. I can go into details, but just be aware that socialized medicine isn't as glamorous as it seems...

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Mason
Member, Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA)
New York, NY

"Come now, and let us reason together," says the Lord, "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool." - Isaiah 1:18

So a certain number of the 20% get "no care". Is that a good thing?

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Ivan R. Schoen, B.A., M.A., M.L.I.S.
Pastor of Maranatha Baptist Church (SBC)
Poplar Grove, IL, USA
http://maranatha-sbc.org