Posted on 5/8/2017, 3:22:27 AM by ForYourChildren
There isn’t one.
With the American Health Care Act dominating the week’s news, one conversation has been unavoidable: Someone — someone who pays attention to public policy — will suggest that we pursue policy x, y, or z, and someone else — someone who pays a little less careful attention, who probably watches a lot of cable-television entertainment masquerading as news — responds: “The first thing we have to do is acknowledge that health care is a human right!” What follows is a moment during which the second speaker visibly luxuriates in his display of empathy and virtue, which is, of course, the point of the exercise.
It’s kind of gross, but that’s where we are, politically, as a country.
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I just don’t get it..
Why don’t we just pass the WHCA and be done with it.
A “right” to health care means you have a “right” to the fruits of another mans labor.
We used to call that slavery.
I have met many a lefty who thinks that they should enjoy the benefits of someone’s labour without compensation.
I don’t get it either. The government does nothing well. Why in the WORLD would anyone want them in charge of healthcare???
Okay, let’s make it like the Right to Bear Arms or the Right to Free Speech - the individual citizen buys the arms or provides the speech on his own - the government’s only role in the process is essentially to stand back and stay out of the way - in this society, rights reside with the people, and are not provided by the government.....
Affordable care isn’t affordable
Get the government out of it, and it would be. (60%-75% cost reductions and affordable insurance policies).
In my view, there can never be a ‘right’ that revolves around one person sticking his hand in another persons pocket. No one should have a ‘right’ to another person’s money.
Eight years ago insurance was a contract between two legal entities. Since then the Progs have driven into the minds of people that insurance companies should be used to transfer wealth as a benefit to those with less and that they should not be allowed an excessive profit. This has allowed the government to get it tenicles into every aspect of health insurance business.
The pubs need to draw attention to the difference between insurance and a benefit. The gov needs to completely get out of the free market side of the business. Anything less is defeat. Provide assistance to the poor - fine, but when you allow the opposition to define the language you are going to loose.
The left has no monopoly on that. Look how many Freepers are all in on the exclusion of pre-existing condition clauses. Or the bitter debate on trade which is esseentially forces one person to buy another’s products in the name of making sure that person has a “good” job. Or how many Freepers believe that the rest of us owe them their SS. Anytime the government takes the fruits of my labor or forces me to use it to their ends I have been foxed to labor for others. There are few legitimate constitutional takings but the above mentions are not.
Tell that to the contemporary Democrat voter.
Good point... the right to freedom in health care, it really should be called.
And this is how the left manages to maneuver the right into looking like ogres.
How right you are!
Guess what, there will always be some law that is based on some idea of virtue.
The only way the USA could work as a civil anarchy would be if everyone believed deeply in God. In which case we’d basically have heaven in waiting, and government would be superfluous.
Look at what has happened to China, prostrating itself to mammon — our mammon — that we are too cheap to approach our neighbors with first. The Yangtze is a sewer; Beijing is besmogged. The paleo-lefties who would say shame, shame, shame on the USA for this might be very correct.
Re “A right” to health care means you have a “right” to the fruits of another mans labor”. We used to call that slavery.
Update that last sentence to “ We used to call that communism/Marxism”.
Obama’s personal physician of many years, Dr. Quentin Young, was an early proponent of “universal health care insurance”. He was also a longtime member of the Communist Party USA which creates “rights” all over the place in order to win new followers and to make their lying propaganda sound logical.
Just look at those around Obama and all you can see, if I had to make a movie about it, is “The Color Red’.
bmp
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