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"Sicko" Movie for Your Health Care in the Bay Area Now
Are you ready for Sicko, the movie that hopefully will finally make possible a national healthcare system paid for with our tax dollars as exists in the rest of the industrialized world? Let's pack the Bay Area theaters for at least a week of 100% attendance to show we want single payer healthcare now!
Are you ready for Sicko, the movie that hopefully will finally make possible a national healthcare system paid for with our tax dollars as exists in the rest of the industrialized world? Let's pack the Bay Area theaters for at least a week of 100% attendance to show we want single payer healthcare now!
Show times and theaters may be found at
http://www.mrmovietimes.com (and you can find yours by inserting your ZIP Code under the date. Most start Friday, June 29, some areas start Tuesday, July 3)
and for
(1) San Francisco:
http://www.mrmovietimes.com/movies/Sicko.html?zip=94102&distance=10+miles&date=86400
(2) Berkeley-Emeryville-Oakland
http://www.mrmovietimes.com/movies/Sicko.html?zip=94612&distance=10+miles&date=86400
(3) Mill Valley, San Rafael, Pleasant Hill, Richmond, San Leandro
http://www.mrmovietimes.com/movies/Sicko.html?zip=94941&distance=30+miles&date=86400
(4) Campbell, Cupertino, Daly City, Dublin, Milpitas, Mt View, Redwood City, San Jose,
Santa Clara, Union City
http://www.mrmovietimes.com/movies/Sicko.html?
zip=94061&distance=30+miles&date=86400
(5) Santa Cruz
http://www.mrmovietimes.com/movies/Sicko.html?zip=95060&distance=30+miles&date=86400
So, pick a date, type in your ZIP and check the times. You can reserve online or just go to the theater and be part of a NATIONAL MOVEMENT FOR SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE NOW! Germany has had national healthcare paid by their taxes since the 1870s under Bismarck, over 130 years ago! The rest of the industrialized world has national healthcare paid by their taxes which is why the US is last in life expectancy and infant mortality in the industrialized world. Half the personal bankruptcies in the US are due to inability to pay healthcare costs, and most of the bankrupt have medical insurance!
Here is Director Michael Moore's Health Care Proposal, from
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/health-care-proposal/
1. Every resident of the United States must have free universal healthcare for life.
2. All health insurance companies must be abolished.
3. Pharmaceutical giants must be strictly regulated like public utilities.
THIS IS A BARE MINIMUM. We can add:
1. Healthcare must include dental care and all non-MD medical fields including but not limited to optometry, podiatry, acupuncture, herbal healing including medical marijuana, chiropractor, psychology, physical therapy, and the like.
2. All employees of health insurance companies should be paid to retrain to work for the government agencies that carry out our national healthcare plan, paid for with our tax dollars.
3. All drug companies should be nationalized, as should all privately owned "public" utilities, and they should be operated by the government with our tax dollars
4. What money is not currently available can be raised as follows:
(a) Transfer the entire military, CIA, prison and death penalty promotion budgets to the healthcare budget and abolish these 4 archaic fascist outrages.
(b) Tax the rich with the progressive income tax by raising taxes on those who make over $200,000 a year.
This should take care of all our medical needs many times over. The military budget alone would do it. After all, we are already paying a very high price with premiums, co-pays and direct pays and we get far less for our money than those with a national healthcare system paid for by the government so that when you walk into a medical, dental or medical-related facility, you pay NOTHING and receive top quality healthcare. We certainly have the resources, so let's act NOW!
Show times and theaters may be found at
http://www.mrmovietimes.com (and you can find yours by inserting your ZIP Code under the date. Most start Friday, June 29, some areas start Tuesday, July 3)
and for
(1) San Francisco:
http://www.mrmovietimes.com/movies/Sicko.html?zip=94102&distance=10+miles&date=86400
(2) Berkeley-Emeryville-Oakland
http://www.mrmovietimes.com/movies/Sicko.html?zip=94612&distance=10+miles&date=86400
(3) Mill Valley, San Rafael, Pleasant Hill, Richmond, San Leandro
http://www.mrmovietimes.com/movies/Sicko.html?zip=94941&distance=30+miles&date=86400
(4) Campbell, Cupertino, Daly City, Dublin, Milpitas, Mt View, Redwood City, San Jose,
Santa Clara, Union City
http://www.mrmovietimes.com/movies/Sicko.html?
zip=94061&distance=30+miles&date=86400
(5) Santa Cruz
http://www.mrmovietimes.com/movies/Sicko.html?zip=95060&distance=30+miles&date=86400
So, pick a date, type in your ZIP and check the times. You can reserve online or just go to the theater and be part of a NATIONAL MOVEMENT FOR SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE NOW! Germany has had national healthcare paid by their taxes since the 1870s under Bismarck, over 130 years ago! The rest of the industrialized world has national healthcare paid by their taxes which is why the US is last in life expectancy and infant mortality in the industrialized world. Half the personal bankruptcies in the US are due to inability to pay healthcare costs, and most of the bankrupt have medical insurance!
Here is Director Michael Moore's Health Care Proposal, from
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/health-care-proposal/
1. Every resident of the United States must have free universal healthcare for life.
2. All health insurance companies must be abolished.
3. Pharmaceutical giants must be strictly regulated like public utilities.
THIS IS A BARE MINIMUM. We can add:
1. Healthcare must include dental care and all non-MD medical fields including but not limited to optometry, podiatry, acupuncture, herbal healing including medical marijuana, chiropractor, psychology, physical therapy, and the like.
2. All employees of health insurance companies should be paid to retrain to work for the government agencies that carry out our national healthcare plan, paid for with our tax dollars.
3. All drug companies should be nationalized, as should all privately owned "public" utilities, and they should be operated by the government with our tax dollars
4. What money is not currently available can be raised as follows:
(a) Transfer the entire military, CIA, prison and death penalty promotion budgets to the healthcare budget and abolish these 4 archaic fascist outrages.
(b) Tax the rich with the progressive income tax by raising taxes on those who make over $200,000 a year.
This should take care of all our medical needs many times over. The military budget alone would do it. After all, we are already paying a very high price with premiums, co-pays and direct pays and we get far less for our money than those with a national healthcare system paid for by the government so that when you walk into a medical, dental or medical-related facility, you pay NOTHING and receive top quality healthcare. We certainly have the resources, so let's act NOW!
For more information:
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/health-c...
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Sorry, but Germany does NOT have a single payer health care system!!!
I wish, I beg, I plead of you all - please stop assuming that universal health care is equal to single payer health care. It is not!
In Germany, there is a two-and-a-half tier system of health care delivery. There is first the distinction between private health insurance and non-private health insurance. Private health insurance is basically the same as here in the U.S. The insurer is free to charge what he wishes and the purchaser can choose his coverage as he likes. The caveat is that in order to purchase private health insurance, you must have a certain minimum yearly income, the level of which is set by the government. When I was there a few years ago, the minimum was approximately €80,000 per year. If you earn more than that - you may purchase private insurance, if you earn less than that, you may not. Private health insurance in Germany is better than non-private in almost every way: front-of-the-line treatment by doctors, private hospital rooms, better coverage, etc. The downside is once you move into private insurance, you have to stick with it forever - even if your health deteriorates or you get old - either of which will send your premiums skyrocketing of course. As a privately insured individual, you may return to the non-private insurance system only if you are broke.
Most Germans don't earn enough to purchase private insurance, so they are in what I call the "non-private" system. I don't call it public insurance, because it isn't. Non-private insurers in Germany operate like credit unions in the U.S. They are medical co-operatives that pool health-related risk. There are many hundreds of these organizations. Any given individual will qualify for several of these medical co-operatives based on their profession, home address, religious affilation, etc., in much the same way that people qualify to join various credit unions here. You pick an insurance provider from among the co-operatives for which you qualify. You can choose based on coverage, rates (which may vary within certain boundaries), perceived "goodness" (usually related to how much they pay doctors - and therefore how much doctors like people covered by that co-operative), etc. Premiums in these medical co-operatives are based on a percentage of your salary, and deducted like payroll taxes - but they are not taxes: the money goes to your provider, not to the government. The higher your salary, the higher percentage you pay as your insurance premium - up until the above mentioned private health insurance minimum. When you earn more than that, the percentage of salary charged as a premium stays constant. This is to encourage people to stay in the non-private system even though they could afford private insurance.
With non-private insuracce your medical experience will not be as nice as with private insurance - all the basics are covered well, but you will share a hospital room, and you will not be bumped to the front of the line, or have access to special appointment times. I was in this system and I found it entirely satisfactory. It didn't bother me that someone with private insurance could come to the doctor's office at 8 when appointments for the rest of us began at 9. But then again, I'm not a bitter jealous person.
Medical services for non-privately insured people are basically "free" at the point of service, but there is a co-pay of €10 to discourage frivolous doctor visits encouraged by completely "free" health care.
German health care provides universal coverage by making membership in the local government's medical co-operative available to people who don't have jobs, income, etc. Their premiums are paid by the government as a social welfare benefit.
Oh, and paying cash for medical services is entirely legal. I did it myself before I entered the German health insurance system.
By introducing a measure of market economics to their health care system, Germany provides universal care without the typical waiting lists and rationing that are a common feature of all socialist economic systems. In fact, German newspapers often run articles on the horrors of medical care in the British NHS - the awful stories that Michael Moore doesn't want to talk about, but that are all too common in Britain, but almost completely unknown in Germany.
In short, Universal Coverage: YES! Single Payer: NO!
I wish, I beg, I plead of you all - please stop assuming that universal health care is equal to single payer health care. It is not!
In Germany, there is a two-and-a-half tier system of health care delivery. There is first the distinction between private health insurance and non-private health insurance. Private health insurance is basically the same as here in the U.S. The insurer is free to charge what he wishes and the purchaser can choose his coverage as he likes. The caveat is that in order to purchase private health insurance, you must have a certain minimum yearly income, the level of which is set by the government. When I was there a few years ago, the minimum was approximately €80,000 per year. If you earn more than that - you may purchase private insurance, if you earn less than that, you may not. Private health insurance in Germany is better than non-private in almost every way: front-of-the-line treatment by doctors, private hospital rooms, better coverage, etc. The downside is once you move into private insurance, you have to stick with it forever - even if your health deteriorates or you get old - either of which will send your premiums skyrocketing of course. As a privately insured individual, you may return to the non-private insurance system only if you are broke.
Most Germans don't earn enough to purchase private insurance, so they are in what I call the "non-private" system. I don't call it public insurance, because it isn't. Non-private insurers in Germany operate like credit unions in the U.S. They are medical co-operatives that pool health-related risk. There are many hundreds of these organizations. Any given individual will qualify for several of these medical co-operatives based on their profession, home address, religious affilation, etc., in much the same way that people qualify to join various credit unions here. You pick an insurance provider from among the co-operatives for which you qualify. You can choose based on coverage, rates (which may vary within certain boundaries), perceived "goodness" (usually related to how much they pay doctors - and therefore how much doctors like people covered by that co-operative), etc. Premiums in these medical co-operatives are based on a percentage of your salary, and deducted like payroll taxes - but they are not taxes: the money goes to your provider, not to the government. The higher your salary, the higher percentage you pay as your insurance premium - up until the above mentioned private health insurance minimum. When you earn more than that, the percentage of salary charged as a premium stays constant. This is to encourage people to stay in the non-private system even though they could afford private insurance.
With non-private insuracce your medical experience will not be as nice as with private insurance - all the basics are covered well, but you will share a hospital room, and you will not be bumped to the front of the line, or have access to special appointment times. I was in this system and I found it entirely satisfactory. It didn't bother me that someone with private insurance could come to the doctor's office at 8 when appointments for the rest of us began at 9. But then again, I'm not a bitter jealous person.
Medical services for non-privately insured people are basically "free" at the point of service, but there is a co-pay of €10 to discourage frivolous doctor visits encouraged by completely "free" health care.
German health care provides universal coverage by making membership in the local government's medical co-operative available to people who don't have jobs, income, etc. Their premiums are paid by the government as a social welfare benefit.
Oh, and paying cash for medical services is entirely legal. I did it myself before I entered the German health insurance system.
By introducing a measure of market economics to their health care system, Germany provides universal care without the typical waiting lists and rationing that are a common feature of all socialist economic systems. In fact, German newspapers often run articles on the horrors of medical care in the British NHS - the awful stories that Michael Moore doesn't want to talk about, but that are all too common in Britain, but almost completely unknown in Germany.
In short, Universal Coverage: YES! Single Payer: NO!
As a graduate student, I did a lot of grading (for $12/hr) for pre-medical classes at a college. It was really outrageous how difficult it is to get into medical school, given how many students want to pursue medical careers, how in-demand medical care is, and how much doctors get paid. Medical and dental and veterinary (in particular) students have to have a minimum 3.5 gpa in fairly difficult classes, and must pass a test with lots of organic chemistry and physics.
In comparison, essentially anyone with a B- gpa and money or a loan can get into some sort of law school. There is no comparison between doctors and lawyers. (And both of these typically have higher academic achievement than business majors). There is really no reasonfor the American Medical association to continue to restrict the number of new medical students each year when the problem is a shortage of medical care that costs too much due to high labor prices.
In comparison, essentially anyone with a B- gpa and money or a loan can get into some sort of law school. There is no comparison between doctors and lawyers. (And both of these typically have higher academic achievement than business majors). There is really no reasonfor the American Medical association to continue to restrict the number of new medical students each year when the problem is a shortage of medical care that costs too much due to high labor prices.
Thanks for the details of my mother's home country of Germany where her family were medical doctors since before Bismarck, and mother would certainly have become a medical doctor if Hitler had not taken power and she had to flee the Holocaust. The ideal is socialized medicine, when all medical care is paid for by the government and all hospitals are public hospitals. Medical care in Germany today is of course different from the 1870s. After all, there was not much medicine in the 1870s, and in fact not much until the widespread use of antibiotics after World War 2. We say we enter the 20th century at age 50, the second half of the 20th century at age 70, and the last decade of the 20th century at age 80. All of this is possible due to modern medicine, with a good deal of help from herbs, acupuncture and the like. "Eastern" medicine has much to teach Western medicine, and we need all of it available to everyone free of charge, paid for with our tax dollars. As you make clear in your description, one way or another, everyone does have medical care in Germany, and that is true in the rest of the industrialized world. The same is not true in the US.
As to the cost of medical care, it is not overworked and underpaid labor that is the problem but the profits of the insurance companies and the private hospitals that are the cause of the astronomical, totally unnecessary extra expense of medical care in this country, for those who can get it. You are correct about the difference between entering law school and entering medical school.
We now come to ADDITIONS TO MICHAEL MOORE'S HEALTHCARE PROPOSAL:
1. All gynecologists must be able and willing to perform abortions at any time during the pregnancy, all abortions must be free (tax funded) on demand with no restrictions as to age, marital status, length of pregnancy or any other restriction and all hospitals must have abortion services available for those that must be done at the hospital. If that means that the government takes over the Catholic hospitals and makes them public hospitals, then that is what must be done. It would be best if all medicine be public, that is, socialized.
2. Medical school must be free in terms of free tuition and free books and more medical schools should be built so that everyone who graduates from college with a Bachelor of Science in the life sciences can attend medical school. This BS degree should be the sole criteria for entrance.
3. As to what anyone gets paid, doctors and dentists should make a maximum of $200,000 a year, and no one in any occupation, including paper graders and anyone else, should receive less than $20 per hour (about $41,600 a year).
These details of course will be worked out, once the people in this country get serious about fighting for a viable healthcare system, which does not now and never has existed in the US for everyone. The rich have always had the best that money can buy and the rest of us have whatever our pennies can buy, which is not much. We are dealing with a country that has been sleepwalking too long. Rise and shine, it is about time is what we must say everywhere we go as we urge people to view Sicko. Can you imagine a country of 300 million people finally talking about reality, namely our right to top quality healthcare on demand, paid for with our tax dollars? It is long overdue.
As to the cost of medical care, it is not overworked and underpaid labor that is the problem but the profits of the insurance companies and the private hospitals that are the cause of the astronomical, totally unnecessary extra expense of medical care in this country, for those who can get it. You are correct about the difference between entering law school and entering medical school.
We now come to ADDITIONS TO MICHAEL MOORE'S HEALTHCARE PROPOSAL:
1. All gynecologists must be able and willing to perform abortions at any time during the pregnancy, all abortions must be free (tax funded) on demand with no restrictions as to age, marital status, length of pregnancy or any other restriction and all hospitals must have abortion services available for those that must be done at the hospital. If that means that the government takes over the Catholic hospitals and makes them public hospitals, then that is what must be done. It would be best if all medicine be public, that is, socialized.
2. Medical school must be free in terms of free tuition and free books and more medical schools should be built so that everyone who graduates from college with a Bachelor of Science in the life sciences can attend medical school. This BS degree should be the sole criteria for entrance.
3. As to what anyone gets paid, doctors and dentists should make a maximum of $200,000 a year, and no one in any occupation, including paper graders and anyone else, should receive less than $20 per hour (about $41,600 a year).
These details of course will be worked out, once the people in this country get serious about fighting for a viable healthcare system, which does not now and never has existed in the US for everyone. The rich have always had the best that money can buy and the rest of us have whatever our pennies can buy, which is not much. We are dealing with a country that has been sleepwalking too long. Rise and shine, it is about time is what we must say everywhere we go as we urge people to view Sicko. Can you imagine a country of 300 million people finally talking about reality, namely our right to top quality healthcare on demand, paid for with our tax dollars? It is long overdue.
Please, everyone, grab your entire family over age 10 and go see Sicko. It is by far Michael Moore's BEST FILM YET. The final major scenes of free medical care in Cuba for the workers at the clean-up of the site of the New York 9/11 Inside Job site is like a glorious finale, Beethoven's brotherhood anthem at the end of his Ninth Symphony. Alle Menschen werden Bruder, all people shall be brothers and sisters, united by the needs and interests of the workingclass. You can almost hear "nicht diese Tone"(not these tones) when you witness the horrific patient dumping of very sick, poor people by the so-called medical system of this country, as well as the many horrific examples the movie gives of the FAILED US MEDICAL SYSTEM. You can and must endure the first 15 minutes of loud previews of the usual garbage movies that are common here. Just plug your ears and close one eye until Sicko arrives. It starts sotto voce and slowly builds its crescendo with its tour of national healthcare systems in Canada, Great Britain, France and finally Cuba, 90 miles from home. THEN, DO YOUR HOMEWORK TO BRING UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE TO THE USA. Go to the Single Payer website, http://www.singlepayernow.net to find out how you can help, and your help is needed now to pass Sheila Kuehl's SB 840 to kick the insurance companies out of the healthcare business and deliver health care to all who live in California. California is a bellwether state due to the fact that is the largest state with 37 million people so what we win here will soon be national policy. For more information, call 415.695.7891, email info [at] singlepayernow.net, write to The California Universal Health Care Organizing Project, PO Box 460622, San Francisco, CA 94146
For more information:
http://www.singlepayernow.net
Once again, far more got done at the local level, this time at our local movie theaters with the outstanding, long overdue ringing indictment of the US medical "system" and excellent alternatives proposed on screen and off screen than at yet another national "conference," better known as party. We now have a good chance at winning some single payer legislation in key states, like California. It is no accident that this movie was by a strong pro-labor person, Michael Moore, and that the nurses, a significant part of the medical labor force, rallied behind it everywhere. What is needed most of all in this country is LABOR ORGANIZING NOW. This latest party disguised as politics, the US Social Forum, now has figurative egg on its face with its literal pie in the face of one attendee, Medea Benjamin, whose politics are very weak (she campaigned for Democrat Kerry while claiming to be a Green). She was an easy target; it won't be long before this becomes an anti-communist campaign as this is an old game. It made the whole US Social Forum look like a childish party with a this very negative action instead of serious organizing of the workingclass of the USA, which is urgently needed. If you do not like someone's politics, create an organization or movement or activity that is an alternative. The positive high road is the only way to get anything done. I am so glad I avoid conferences like the plague they usually are and went to my neighborhood theater and saw Sicko, one of millions in our mass demonstration for urgently needed universal health care.
At Director Moore's website at http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/2007/06/sicko-spreads-across-usa-on-opening.html
we can see an everchanging cross-section of the USA attending Sicko and doing urgently needed political organizing for the workingclass, the greatest beneficiaries of national healthcare. There is even a poem by one of the Raging Grannies. It is not the most poetic, but it certainly drives home the need for fully government funded with our tax dollars medical care, eliminating the insurance companies, the murderous "pre-existing conditions" routine, and the hideous expense to all. The lyrics are by Grandma Vicki attending the Rochester, New York screening, and the tune is "The Old Gray Mare" (you knew that would be the tune!):
The Raging Grannies sing a SiCKO song about shooting each other
as they greet the crowd in Rochester.
Here are the lyrics to the song they sang:
This Old Gray Granny
(Tune: “The Old Gray Mare”)
Lyrics by Grandma Vicki
This OLD gray Granny ain’t what she used to be,
HAD a hysterectomy,
NEEDS a colonoscopy,
But SHE can’t afford to PAY for her care and so
I GUESS we’ll have to shoot her now.
’Cause WHERE is she supposed to go
WHEN she doesn’t have the dough?
She DARE not get sick withOUT health insurance so
I GUESS we’ll have to shoot her now.
This OLD gray Granny SPLITS all her pills in half.
The DRUG companies just laugh;
Their PROFITS are off the graph.
But GRANNY can’t afford to PAY for her pills and so
I GUESS we’ll have to shoot her now.
’Cause WHAT is she supposed to do
When MONEY for the rent is due?
She CAN’T buy pills and GROCERIES, too, and so
I GUESS we’ll have to shoot her now.
This OLD gray Granny NOW needs a test or two.
Her BOOB has a lump, it’s true,
But WHAT is she supposed to do?
She CAN’T pay the bill so she’ll JUST have to muddle through.
I GUESS we’ll have to shoot her now.
Well, GRANNY’s old but she is wise.
And “SICKO” opened up her eyes!
She’ll FIGHT for Resolution H-R-6-7-6,
For SINGLE payer Medicare for all!
Just GIVE your Representatives a call,
And TELL ’em we need health care, one and all!
Let’s GET out and work for H-R-6-7-6,
So WE won’t have to shoot her after all!
At Director Moore's website at http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/2007/06/sicko-spreads-across-usa-on-opening.html
we can see an everchanging cross-section of the USA attending Sicko and doing urgently needed political organizing for the workingclass, the greatest beneficiaries of national healthcare. There is even a poem by one of the Raging Grannies. It is not the most poetic, but it certainly drives home the need for fully government funded with our tax dollars medical care, eliminating the insurance companies, the murderous "pre-existing conditions" routine, and the hideous expense to all. The lyrics are by Grandma Vicki attending the Rochester, New York screening, and the tune is "The Old Gray Mare" (you knew that would be the tune!):
The Raging Grannies sing a SiCKO song about shooting each other
as they greet the crowd in Rochester.
Here are the lyrics to the song they sang:
This Old Gray Granny
(Tune: “The Old Gray Mare”)
Lyrics by Grandma Vicki
This OLD gray Granny ain’t what she used to be,
HAD a hysterectomy,
NEEDS a colonoscopy,
But SHE can’t afford to PAY for her care and so
I GUESS we’ll have to shoot her now.
’Cause WHERE is she supposed to go
WHEN she doesn’t have the dough?
She DARE not get sick withOUT health insurance so
I GUESS we’ll have to shoot her now.
This OLD gray Granny SPLITS all her pills in half.
The DRUG companies just laugh;
Their PROFITS are off the graph.
But GRANNY can’t afford to PAY for her pills and so
I GUESS we’ll have to shoot her now.
’Cause WHAT is she supposed to do
When MONEY for the rent is due?
She CAN’T buy pills and GROCERIES, too, and so
I GUESS we’ll have to shoot her now.
This OLD gray Granny NOW needs a test or two.
Her BOOB has a lump, it’s true,
But WHAT is she supposed to do?
She CAN’T pay the bill so she’ll JUST have to muddle through.
I GUESS we’ll have to shoot her now.
Well, GRANNY’s old but she is wise.
And “SICKO” opened up her eyes!
She’ll FIGHT for Resolution H-R-6-7-6,
For SINGLE payer Medicare for all!
Just GIVE your Representatives a call,
And TELL ’em we need health care, one and all!
Let’s GET out and work for H-R-6-7-6,
So WE won’t have to shoot her after all!
For more information:
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/200...
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