Do you think heath care is a right or a good?

It is not a right that is found in the U.S. Constitution however many in congress are trying to make people believe that it is.

The biggest reason for Congress to do this is to cause this country to go more and more toward total control by the government.

ha ha. You understand it pretty well already I see. What is right, is often different from what is good. sometimes, a few issues get to be both. If it is about control, and it is, and our government does not allow us to get treatment for cancer and only the wealthy, the elite, etc. get to have those expensive organ transplants, they get the right to pick which of us can die and which to live. Its all about control. The ability to withhold life saving medications, put limits on medications you can receive in a year, etc. Most people were happy with their insurance, the rest with low incomes got medicaid. So to say half of america does not have insurance, just means, instead of paying out for medicaid, they can force us all to pay for all that insurance with the taxes we already paid to cover medicaid with, plus a monthly amount to continue paying for our own health care. Its just another way of control, another way to collect all that money we pay out to medical insurance which they make a great billion dollar or more profit on each year. Just a way to bring more money into the governments dwindling money. when I lived in Hawaii, the government paid a university 100,000 a year to study a gecko lizard. They had about a dozen of them, in a closet, sitting in 12 small glass fish tanks and for years, they watched the lizard impregnate itself somehow when it could not get to a male or female. We pay out ridiculous amounts of money to study pure crazy stuff each year that has no bearing on health, the environment or any true issue that would in anyway help this planet. Now they want to tell us they care about our health. We have had healthy problems 200 years. Why be concerned now? Well they need more money to keep studying gecko's I guess. I lost my sense of reason when it comes to our democracy years ago. God luck if you still have the faith. The older crowd knows better.

Sorry, but health coverage is NOT a right in this Country. It isn't.

And I shouldn't be footing the bill for someone who can't or won't get coverage. Nor should the person that can't or won't get coverage, be fined because of it.

And YES! If it were a constitutional right, not only would the Gov ignore it, they'd find a way to take funding from it, or decide it was a wasteful program and close it down.

It`s not a `right` as such, cos you`d have to pay for it in one way or another (taxes).

But it is one of the best things a government could do for its peoples. It has the biggest benefit of almost any government action, and benefits all the people.

Illness is one of mankind`s biggest fears and obstacles to our struggle to survive.

It may not be a right, but it should be a basic right not a privilege that as a citizen living in the Greatest Country one should have to do without basic insurance. I realize we have ER Rooms, but they are so overwhelmed and should not been used for basic care needs....

Health care is not a right. Neither are high speed internet, a house or car you can't afford.