There is a distinction between health care as a right (open to all regardless of employment or income status) and the current conflation of health care with disability, welfare, and work, which perpetuates the idea that some people are more deserving than others.
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Bill GoldsteinEvidence Quote
“why is there not a connection between the the honor of receiving a disability check as opposed to a welfare check connected to an idea that uh health care is a social welfare of open to all of us i mean whether we're working or unemployed or poor or starving or rich”
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Nancy Isenberg - White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America— Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter CollegeCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:12:44 PM
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