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Here's the thing though. Democrats want this as an add-on to universal public health insurance, because health insurance is considered a universal right, and physical and health education help managing the costs. Republicans want it instead of public health insurance, because they consider staying healthy to be an individual responsibility that the state should not be involved in, and "just exercise and eat healthy" is their response to people complaining about cuts in the healthcare system.
lol nah. It's just some guy on xitter.
Just exercise and eat healthy. Also, steak is top of the food pyramid now.
Do Democrats want universal public health insurance? Or does the left want universal public health insurance?
A bunch of them do, yes. Democratic party is a coalition of a lot of smaller groups that want a lot of different things.
I'll take the bait and answer with the obvious: No.
My point was that catching Republicans in this seeming contradiction isn't the "gotcha" that people think it is, because they advertise health and exercise for very different reasons, namely to strip away the last bits of public health insurance that Americans still have.
You're probably right in that the left is more united about reforming health insurance than Democrats are overall. But it's important not to miss the big picture.
The big picture is health insurance and food corporations have captured our political and legal process, I agree. It needs completely rooting out, and anyone against it, republican or democrat, should be removed from office. Citizens United and any other form of legal corporate money in politics needs gutting.