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"A compassionate society should take the welfare and the future of all members of its community into consideration. A compassionate government should seek to consider the welfare of the many and not the few. A compassionate voter should consider not just his or her immediate short-term interests but should look at the wider society he or she wants to live in."
Just what a US-style system would mean was brought home to me when I was in Shenandoah National Park. Behind the desk in the Visitors' Centre was a memo to staff that there were not to check if the parents of an injured child had medical insurance before calling an ambulance.