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huju
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There are a number of problems with the opening post, but I will focus on just one.

Whether or not healthcare is a right under US law, under the Torah, healthcare for each person in a coumunity is a responsibility of the whole community. This is the opinion of the Rambam, and I am sorry that I do not have a specific citation for this view. The Torah speaks more of responsibilities and obligations than of rights, and so maybe Obamacare should be recast as the federalization and secularization of the mitzvah of providing healthcare for all. Repeal without replacement would mean death or severe illness for many people. Perhaps the opening poster owes us an explanation for what he would do for all the people whose health would be severely jeopardized by a repeal, or a faulty repeal-and-replace, of Obamacare.