Health care is a right. Health insurance is a responsibility.
Nobody should be denied health care and nobody should expect somebody else to purchase health insurance for them.
I agree with you totally....
Nobody should be denied health care and nobody should expect somebody else to purchase health insurance for them.
Would you agree that nobody should be denied health care (rich or poor); and that it should be provided without cost to those who have no money. Do “those” include citizens only? Do we pay for the poor immigrant who has been critically injured in a car accident?
Tough questions.
Health care is not a right !
A right is something you can exercise without depriving someone else of something. Free speech is a right, others may not like what you say but they are not deprived of anything. Freedom of a assembly as long as you don’t trespass. (If you trespass you are depriving someone of the use of their property!) Bear arms is a right as long as you don’t threaten. Read the Bill of Rights its a good and pretty exhaustive list!
If Health Care was a right I could demand it with no compensation to the provider. By proclaiming it to be a right your are demanding the right to put your hand in someone else’s’ pocket. It doesn’t mater if you have a good reason.
hmmm, I not in agreement with that statement. How something can be a “right” when it requires the time, skill and resources of others makes no sense to me.
Do I want health care to be affordable and easily accessible while not discriminatory? Of course, I also want medicine to advance, which takes $$$.