What makes you thank Health care is a right?

You can't find it in there because it is not in there. It is not a guaranteed right to have health care. It is a privilege to have health care.

I'm sorry but none of you know anything at all lol. The life liberty and pursuit of happiness is taken directly from John Locke. Except in his version it was life, liberty, health, and property. If jefferson had copied directly then this wouldn't be a problem.

You also need to think...how can you have the life part if you die from cancer because you can't afford the treatments? An er isn't equipped to give you chemo. How can you have a pursuit of happiness if you have fear lingering over you that a health issue will bankrupt you so you can't provide for your family? This isn't just about people that don't have insurance, this happens to people with insurance. Think if someone was shot and you were watching them die....don't they have a right to healthcare? Of course they do that's why er's have to treat people, so why is it different with people that die slowly?

You honestly need to think this over more...the constitution doesn't list any rights at all...the bill of rights was added to cover that problem. Don't you understand that the constitution didn't give the right to not be a slave? Would you argue against the liberation of slaves because it wasn't in the constitution? It's not a black and white document. It's meant to be modified and change according to the times. If something needs to be added...like womens sufferage, then it is added. Would you have used that argument against african americans or women?

I think I've proven my point on this issue. I think my logic is sound.

Every industrialized nation besides ours considers health care a right. Only we see it as an entitlement. It's just common sense to protect people, which is the job of the government. And more then that it's the right thing to do. If someone is sick you should help them to get better, if they are dying you should help them to survive. If my friend is sick and I have the power to make him better, with little sacrifice on my part, what kind of a person would I be if I did nothing? Do the right thing people. Stop thinking with your politics and your propaganda. It's not a coincidence that most of the intellectual world accepts health as a right.

Health care used to be free for everyone when the church had control over it, people weren't happy with that, so why would they be happy with giving the government control over it? Anyone could walk into a hospital and receive free health care because it was run on charity, generosity, and peoples sense of human decency towards one another. That is when people really cared about their neighbor. You can't have a Christian philosophy in a corrupt environment. Now people would rather kill their own babies than give of themselves, and claim they have done a good and decent deed. This is the reason people can't afford health care in the first place, they handed it over to the insurance companies because they were hating on religion and now they want to cry about it? What ever. It all revolves around lies, greed, and corruption, there is no possible way to fix that except turn back the hands of time and start over, but that isn't going to happen, so everyone might as well just forget about it because the only thing you will accomplish is making matters worse than they already are. That is what happens when you remove God from the picture and try to replace him with government. You are the masters of your own demise. Keep on with your greed, lust, corruption and keep polluting your own minds and the minds of children, you have nowhere to go but down from here. What most don't understand is Jesus didn't come to give everlasting life, he came to save the minds of the masses, and we have all failed miserably because we turned our backs on God. The great deceiver, most definitely so. ;-)

What makes Social Security and Medicare a right? The people decided it was something that made our country stronger.

The majority of Americans want some type of health care reform. No one who is not currently eligible for free health care will get free insurance. Government isn't taking over and we are not getting socialized medicine. Hopefully he will open access to affordable health care which is what people are asking for.

Where in the constitution does it mandate we have a for profit system of health care? Where does it say it has to be employer based? Where does it say we have to cede all power to corporations?

CIVILIZED human beings don't take joy in needless suffering and death.

We think it should be prevented.

Those who have no hearts don't buy this notion, of course. Knowing that tens of thousands of Americans die every year means nothing to them. Seeing children unable to breathe because their parents can't afford inhalers brings them nothing but joy.

However, it's in the best interests of society in general that the sick are treated: it's cheaper; once cured or their conditions managed, they can contribute to society.

Where in the Constitution? In the part that sets out the purposes of government, the Preamble: promote the general welfare

BTW, no one is arguing that people owe them a thing. Everyone with either a brain or a heart realize that it's BAD for people to suffer and die when it could be prevented; and GOOD for everyone to have affordable access to health care.

Only those who have neither brain nor heart disagree.

Health care is a right only if the people who write laws makes it so. The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were not rights until people decided they were. There are NO inherent rights.

The 10th Amendment specifically says things not mentioned in the Constitution are reserved for the States AND THE PEOPLE!!!

In other words, it's totally irrelevant that it's not mentioned in the Constitution! That doesn't somehow make it illegal!

If the people want it and the people vote for it (and the Supreme Court doesn't find it UNCONSTITUTIONAL) it's legal! Just like always.

I had a dream, and angels with puppy faces told me. People can't be happy if they don't have health insurance. The constitution doesn't mention microwave ovens either, but many people have them.

People die without health care. It is a basic right of everyone to have health care, rich or poor, it shouldn't matter. Everyone needs health care and health care should be provided for those who can't afford it.

It is not a right. We already have the right however anyone can walk into a hospital can get care. Something everyone seems to forget in the current debate.

it could really just come do to a moral issue.

some seem to think spending hundreds of billions on killing is fine(the WDM war) and dandy others think that (tax)money should be spent to save lives and make people healthy.