If health care is an "inalienable" right, as some would have us believe, then what about ?

If you can't afford health care then you well may die and all the rest won't matter. There is no reason for the insurance companies to be allowed to get richer while shutting out people in need of health care by raising rates so high that many working people cannot afford it. Conservatives have apparently never seen the signs in doctors offices saying that payment is due at the time of service. That of course applies if you don't have the insurance they accept. Many of them don't accept Medicaid, which many elderly people have. Health care costs are a major factor in causing people to be needy. But of course the President does care about the poor and those in need.

That is why he instituted these changes:

Ended the previous policy of offering tax benefits to corporations who outsource American jobs; the new policy is to promote in-sourcing to bring jobs back

Ended the previous practice of protecting credit card companies; in place of it are new consumer protections from credit card industry's predatory practices

Lower drug costs for seniors

Ended the previous practice of forbidding Medicare from negotiating with drug manufacturers for cheaper drugs; the federal government is now realizing hundreds of millions in savings

Increasing pay and benefits for military personnel

Improved housing for military personnel

Initiating a new policy to promote federal hiring of military spouses

Improved conditions at Walter Reed Military Hospital and other military hospitals

Increasing student loans

Improving benefits for veterans

Making more loans available to small businesses

Authorized construction/opening of additional health centers to care for veterans

Attempting to reform the nation's healthcare system which is the most expensive in the world yet leaves almost 50 million without health insurance and millions more under insured

Expanded the SCHIP program to cover health care for 4 million more children

Here is what a couple of our founding fathers had to say about the needy:

In a letter to James Madison in 1785, for instance, Thomas Jefferson suggested that taxes could be used to reduce “the enormous inequality” between rich and poor. He wrote that one way of “silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise.”

Madison later spoke in favor of using laws to “reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity (meaning the middle) and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort.”

At the time there were fewer doctors, and into the early 20th century children often weren't named until they were around a year old because so many died. Doctors and hospitals when available didn't charge exorbitant prices. Midwives usually delivered babies, when available. We could return to the past as Conservatives advocate or we could admit that tax payers deserve at least the right to life as a benefit of paying taxes.

Short answer, Yes and no. No it is not a right if the question is about insurance mandate;

I will try to wonder in my answering as you just wondered in your asking this "complex Issue"

It becomes a problem if the government wants to mandate me to buy insurance. Yes, it is a right if it is your right to refuse medication, treatment or a type of treatment. The hospital will ask you to sign consent of treatment before they touch you.

The fore Fathers had there own shortcomings as humans. For instance they never thought about females as equals nor slaves, so I believe somethings we must amend according to the times.

I don't think health care as being a right or not a right is the problem; the problem is the cost. Cost must be controlled some way before it goes out of control.

Health care is not an inalienable right, but a right to life is; therefore, if you go to the emergency room without insurance and you need immediate health care we must give it and we do.

The problem with health care for everyone is that the man who doesn't work shouldn't eat and therefore if he is too lazy to work then why should the rest of us pay for his hearing aids and eye glasses. Help for the crippled and mentally insane is a different story, they must be helped. Many people have health issues where they cannot work and these people must be cared for, but to give health insurance to every citizen because they refuse to pay for insurance thinking they are too young and will not get sick is too expensive for any nation and it diminishes the quality of care that is provided.

Whatever the Forefathers did not put into the Constitution is nonsense, just like whatever God did not put into the Koran. The Forefathers were in fact directly inspired by God. In this sense, the US Constitution is the Koran of American politics and Thomas Jefferson its Muhammad.

The government is already involved in providing food and shelter.