Do we have a right to health care?
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Type of Content: Article During the presidential debate Tuesday night, Barack Obama was asked if he thought health care was a “right.” Read »
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I think what the "right to health care" means to Obama is that you have the right to the fruits of everybody's labor, not just the labor of health care providers, because of course health care providers will want to be compensated for their labor, so someone else's property has to be confiscated for that purpose [then on tax day a portion the health care provider's property gets confiscated as well]. We haven't yet gotten to the point where doctors will be forced to work for free-- although we are definitely heading in that direction. But Obama could have picked the "right to transportation" or the "right to housing" (which I'm sure he believes in too), it would have amounted to the same thing.
What Obama really means is that he believes that THE STATE has the right to our labor, that we are all to be, as Bill Whittle so eloquently puts it, slaves of the state.
I imagine the Doctor will be forced to accept a substandard wage for his services to the State though. Which, in addition to taxation forced upon him to pay for the care of others makes him/her doubly violated.
What democrats do not realize is that without their precious government regulations, the charity hospital could once again return to America. The charity hospital gives us all what we want. free/affordable health care for the needy and control over the expenditure of our respective wealth. But they have to part with government control over the medical industry. the lust for control over others that masquerades as compassion that is the staple of socialism does not allow them to give up control for the greater good, only to claim more control "for the greater good".
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Many doctors would love to do pro bono work for their patients who are poor and uninsured, but they are prevented from doing so by the hospitals that employ then, which are in turn responding to government regulation. Moreover, if health care were deregulated, prices would come down and many more people could afford it.
If health care goes public, doctors will indeed be forced to accept whatever wage the government sets for them. That is happening in Canada already, with the result that health services are becoming more and more scarce, and people are suffering and dying just waiting in line for treatment.
Unless I'm really confused, healthcare is the fruit of the labor of healthcare providers.
Didn't we have an institution here in America that gave some people the right to the fruits of other people's labor? I thought we made it illegal. I guess I'm wrong.
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Nope... at least in my opinion. Health care, just like many things, is a luxury. Many Americans are just too spoiled to realize it.
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health care is the labor of a medical professional. No, no one has a right to anyone elses labor. being a doctor sucks enough without being a slave of the proletariat.
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So how could we possibly have a right to health care? Unless you have an allodial deed to the land your house is on, you dont own it - the basis of imminent domain.
So, we cant have land but somehow we are entitled to health care? Which amendment is that under? Which states have voted to make that an amendment? at what point in the history of this country did using the proper procedures for amending the constitution get utterly shit on and havent been used in.... how long?
27th amendment ratified may 7 1992 was the last time an amendment was ratified by my notes.
First they ignore you [when you say NO], then they ridicule you [when you say NO], then they fight you [when you say NO], then you win [when they learn]. - Mahatma Gandhi.
Excellent post! And no, we do not have a right to health care.