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		<title>Rogers, Will -- Column (1930-07-13), &#8220;Weekly Article&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[All Doctors should make enough out of those who are well able to pay, to be able to do all work for the poor free. That is one thing that a poor person should never be even expected to pay for is medical attention, and not from an organized Charity, but from our best Doctors. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All Doctors should make enough out of those who are well able to pay, to be able to do all work for the poor free. That is one thing that a poor person should never be even expected to pay for is medical attention, and not from an organized Charity, but from our best Doctors. But your Doctor bill should be paid like your Income tax, according to what you have. There&#8217;s nothing that keeps poor people poor as much as paying Doctor bills.</p>
<br><b>Will Rogers</b> (1879-1935) American humorist<br>Column (1930-07-13), &#8220;Weekly Article&#8221; 
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		<title>Gibson, William -- Twitter (1 Oct 2013)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don&#8217;t yet have a fully adult concept of scary.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don&#8217;t yet have a fully adult concept of scary.</p>
<br><b>William Gibson</b> (b. 1948) American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist and essayist<br>Twitter (1 Oct 2013) 
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		<title>Bevan, Nye -- In Place of Fear (1952)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means. Bevan was the key politician responsible for the 1946 founding of the UK&#8217;s National Health Service.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.</p>
<br><b>Aneurin "Nye" Bevan</b> (1897-1960) Welsh politician<br><i>In Place of Fear</i> (1952) 
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Bevan was the key politician responsible for the 1946 founding of the UK's National Health Service.						</span>
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		<title>Maher, Bill -- Real Time with Bill Maher (24 Jul 2009)</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If conservatives get to call universal health care &#8220;socialized medicine,&#8221; then I get to call private, for-profit health care &#8220;soulless, vampire bastards making money off human pain.&#8221;]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If conservatives get to call universal health care &#8220;socialized medicine,&#8221; then I get to call private, for-profit health care &#8220;soulless, vampire bastards making money off human pain.&#8221;</p>
<br><b>William "Bill" Maher</b> (b. 1956) American comedian, political commentator, critic, television host.<br><i>Real Time with Bill Maher</i> (24 Jul 2009) 
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		<title>Euripides -- Electra [Ἠλέκτρα], l.  426ff (c. 420 BC) [tr. Murray (1905)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PEASANT: &#8216;Tis in such shifts As these, I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. [ΑΥΤΟΥΡΓΌΣ: ἐν τοῖς τοιούτοις δ᾽ [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="hangingindent">PEASANT: <span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">&#8216;Tis in such shifts<br />
As these, I care for riches, to make gifts<br />
To friends, or lead a sick man back to health<br />
With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth<br />
For daily gladness; once a man be done<br />
With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="hangingindent">[ΑΥΤΟΥΡΓΌΣ: ἐν τοῖς τοιούτοις δ᾽ ἡνίκ᾽ ἂν γνώμης πέσω,<br />
σκοπῶ τὰ χρήμαθ᾽ ὡς ἔχει μέγα σθένος,<br />
ξένοις τε δοῦναι σῶμά τ᾽ ἐς νόσους πεσὸν<br />
δαπάναισι σῷσαι: τῆς δ᾽ ἐφ᾽ ἡμέραν βορᾶς<br />
ἐς σμικρὸν ἥκει: πᾶς γὰρ ἐμπλησθεὶς ἀνὴρ<br />
ὁ πλούσιός τε χὡ πένης ἴσον φέρει.]</p>
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<br><b>Euripides</b> (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist<br><i>Electra</i> [Ἠλέκτρα], l.  426ff (c. 420 BC) [tr. Murray (1905)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Electra_(Murray)/Text#:~:text=%27Tis%20in%20such%20shifts%0AAs%20these%2C%20I%20care%20for%20riches%2C%20to%20make%20gifts%0ATo%20friends%2C%20or%20lead%20a%20sick%20man%20back%20to%20health%0AWith%20ease%20and%20plenty.%20Else%20small%20aid%20is%20wealth%0AFor%20daily%20gladness%3B%20once%20a%20man%20be%20done%0AWith%20hunger%2C%20rich%20and%20poor%20are%20all%20as%20one." target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0095%3Acard%3D401#:~:text=%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%80%E1%BF%B6%20%CF%84%E1%BD%B0%20%CF%87%CF%81%CE%AE%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%B8,%E1%BC%B4%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%BD%20%CF%86%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%B5%CE%B9.">Source (Greek)</a>). Alternate translations: <br><br>

<blockquote>When on these matters I reflect, I mark<br> 
How great the power of riches, to bestow <br>
Upon the needy stranger, or expend them <br>
To heal our bodies wasting with disease. <br>
But for the diet of one day, is wealth <br>
Of small importance : for the appetites <br>
Of all men, whether rich or poor, demand <br>
An equal share of necessary food.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/nineteentragedi02wodhgoog/page/n310/mode/2up?q=%22power+of+riches%22">Wodhull</a> (1809)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>It is in such cases, whenever I fail in my intentions, that I see how wealth has great power, to give to strangers, and to expend in curing the body when it falls sick; but money for our daily food comes to little; for every man when full, rich or poor, gets an equal amount.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0096%3Acard%3D401#:~:text=It%20is%20in%20such%20cases%2C%20whenever%20I%20fail%20in%20my%20intentions%2C%20that%20I%20see%20how%20wealth%20has%20great%20power%2C%20to%20give%20to%20strangers%2C%20and%20to%20expend%20in%20curing%20the%20body%20when%20it%20falls%20sick%3B%20but%20money%20for%20our%20daily%20food%20%5B430%5D%20comes%20to%20little%3B%20for%20every%20man%20when%20full%2C%20rich%20or%20poor%2C%20gets%20an%20equal%20amount.">Coleridge</a> (1891)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But when my mind falls upon this subject, I consider how great a power wealth has, botht o bestow on strangers, and by expense to preserve one's body when fallen into sickness; but for one's daily food it comes to little. For every man once filled, rich or poor, bears an equality.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_tragedies_of_Euripides_literally_tr/xdkNAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22but%20when%20my%20mind%22">Buckley</a> (1892)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>In such things, when my thoughts turn thitherward,<br>
I mark what mighty vantage substance hath,<br>
To give to guests, to medicine the body<br>
In sickness: but for needs of daily food<br>
Not far it reacheth. Each man, rich and poor,<br>
Can be but filled, when hunger is appeased.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tragedies_of_Euripides_(Way)/Electra#:~:text=In%20such%20things,hunger%20is%20appeased.">Way</a> (1896)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>When I think of such things then I see what mighty power money has! Not only you help your friends with the stuff but you can also heal yourself from any illness when you have the money to pay. The cost of a normal everyday meal is cheap, because everyone, rich and poor, once he had enough he feels the same joy.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://bacchicstage.wordpress.com/euripides/elektra-aka-electra/#:~:text=When%20I%20think,the%20same%20joy.">Theodoridis</a> (2006)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">It’s at times like this,<br>
when I have no idea how to manage,<br>
I think of the great power money has<br>
for giving things to strangers and paying<br>
to save someone whenever he falls sick.<br>
The meals we need each day don’t come to much,<br>
for all men, once they have eaten their fill,<br>
feel much the same, whether rich or poor. <br>
[tr. <a href="https://johnstoniatexts.x10host.com/euripides/electrahtml.html#:~:text=It%E2%80%99s%20at%20times%20like%20this">Johnston</a> (2009), l. 515ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">[...] whether rich or poor<br>
Everyone is equal when their belly is full.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2020/09/09/should-we-kill-our-mother-reading-euripides-electra-online/#:~:text=Euripides%2C%20Elektra%20430,%CF%87%E1%BD%A0%20%CF%80%E1%BD%B3%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%82%20%E1%BC%B4%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%BD%20%CF%86%E1%BD%B3%CF%81%CE%B5%CE%B9.">@sentantiq</a> (2020)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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