If we want to be smart and fair, we could institute a two-year national
service component to our lives. This is everyone doing two years of some
national service--army, civilian conservation corps, Americorps,
whatever. Everyone lives away on a base or "quarters," in a place far
from one's home, wears a uniform and, in general, does what is assigned
24/7. Regardless of your family's wealth--two years. War or peace--two
years. No one is exempt: male, female, undecided--two years. Genius or
dummy--two years. Ritualize it as the premier rite of passage.
And then we say that everyone who has completed their
National Service is a 'veteran', and eligible for medical care under
the Veterans Administration Medical System. (And we fund that system
adequately.)
Then we would actually have a National Health Care
System! At least, for all the young people. And expanding to cover
more people every year, as they complete their National Service.
Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish-Ericsson
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