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That's all well and good, but that line between decent and not decent isn't always so clear. And we have all kinds of laws that really do nothing more than tell us to be decent - don't cheat people, kill them, public nuisance laws, don't sell tainted or poisonous products. We are discussing healthcare - there is in fact a law to require hospitals to treat people in the ER without regard to ability to pay. If Cruz gets his wish and ACA is repealed, how many will die for lack of access to health insurance? If it's 100, are we a decent people? 1,000? 100,000? 1 million? Those aren't easy lines to draw.
Like Sen. Cruz, I hope the Obamacare law is fully repealed. I have no idea if that would cause the death of anyone. And I don't see what any of that has to do with the fact that under the common law a person has no duty to help someone in distress, let alone with the subject of this thread.