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Basic responsibility

Wed., May 17, 2017

My compliments to Bob Strong for his May 5 letter, “Right thing to do.” Universal medical coverage may not be an individual right but it is certainly a government responsibility and obligation. It provides for the common defense against disease and injury. It efficiently promotes the general welfare and insures domestic tranquility. Health care for everybody is essential to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. We have forgotten and forsaken the purpose of our government and ignored the establishment of justice for all.

Rich Magney

Spokane

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