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Healthcare is indeed a right, not a privilege. We should have access to quality care and management regardless of race, religion, ethnic origin, or even sexual orientation.

On the other hand, you bring up a good point about education. Proper education helps achieve improvement of health within the community. Yet, this brings me to the issue of vaccination. There are a number of parents who opt-out their kids to get vaccinated because they incorrectly believe vaccines cause autism and other medical complications, and believe that measles and polio no longer a threat. But, by doing so they put others at risk, similar to what happened to the outbreak of measles in Disneyland. What is really ironic, according to research is that parents who


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