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Celebration of the UK National Health Service

If you missed the opening ceremony of the Olympics on Friday evening, here's a glimpse. This was seriously mind blowing, a country where the people pay higher taxes for nationalized health care, and they celebrate it. The mere mention of it in the U.S. makes the right-wing recoil in horror and hiss all at once. "It’s something that is very dear to people's hearts. If you live here, you will end up there, it does not matter how rich or powerful you are.
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