It's certainly her admitting that there are times that people need state aid. It's therefore hypocritical of her to carry on lobbying against it after she used it.
But maybe if it wasn't for the extra taxation required to pay for that service, she would have made her own arrangements* out of the money she didn't pay in taxes.
I'm not saying this definitely would have happened, but maybe that was her logic.
* With private sector suppliers who perhaps wouldn't have been crowded out by the public sector.
If that was her logic, then she was either innumerate or just too wedded to her dogma to see the gaping chasm between what she'd paid in taxes and what it costs to deal with old age and cancer in addition to the other "true" costs of government services she'd used for so many decades.
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I'm not saying this definitely would have happened, but maybe that was her logic.
* With private sector suppliers who perhaps wouldn't have been crowded out by the public sector.
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-- Steve wouldn't doubt the latter possibility, given what'd given her that cancer in the first place.