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How much is your "right" to health care worth?
If health care is a right, then it can't be denied right? But what if the cure costs $100,000? What if it costs $1,000,000? What if it costs $1,000,000,000 (1 billion)? It is a "right", so your fellow man MUST provide it to you no matter the cost, right? After all, if it is a right, you can't put a limit on it. Just like you can't say you have a right to free speech, but can only say 1,000 words; or you have a right to life but can only live 60 years. If it is a right, then it is unlimited. Even if it costs $1 trillion to save 1 life, we must pay because it is a "right", right?
Or is health care a service and not a right? Is it a commodity that you can purchase as long as you can afford the price? If it is not a right, then how can you force another person to pay for it? If you walk into a grocery store and steal food at gun point because you can't afford it, isn't that a crime? So then if you can't afford your cancer treatment and steal the money to pay for it from somebody else, isn't that a crime? Does being hungry or sick, justify anything and everything? Are the victims not victims anymore because you are hungry or sick? Doesn't the good of the many outweigh the good of the individual? So how can you harm the entire community by stealing their rights and property to save 1 person?
So which is it? Is health care a right, and therefore we can not deny it to any person, even if it costs every sinlge penny of the entire community? Or is health care a service like any other that you alone are responsible for; and it would be unjust to harm the community to get it for yourself?
6 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
it is not a right
- Heretic SaintLv 41 decade ago
If you are able bodied & work for a company that has a health care package for which you probably contribute to, then you have a right to it because you pay, or work for that right. If you think that you can slack on life by not working even though you are completely equipped to, and then demand that those of us who do work not infringe upon your 'right' to health care than I'll see you on the battlefield when the riots start. There is no way that your abuse of the system entitles you to any service for which hard working Americans will foot the bill.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Health care is indeed a service like any other that you alone are responsible for. We really know how to throw away money here. It's unfair all around though! A group of people demanding another group of people's money is by all means a heist. On top of that though, the AMA should come to an end, as should the FDA. Someone else said it best here when they said that licensing should certainly still be an option, but it shouldn't be an obligation.
- warriorLv 61 decade ago
When it comes to health care, the Republicans are making a mountain out of a mole hill after they allowed the cost of health care to gyrate out of control... and while they attacked the human rights issues of China...the their insurance company and lawyer friends made a joke out health care in the USA.. Yes, I do have care rights and I--along with my fellow Democrats are voting to restore my right to health care at a reasonable price...
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- 1 decade ago
Healthcare = Commodity, No rights to it....
This healthcare debate will eventually be a good thing for the nation when it flops(and it will)....
Obama's Presidency will be remembered as one of the worst in history (on its way) and I will not see another black president in my lifetime. Thanks Obama.
Word up Obama! You should speak in rhyme, Talk about healthcare being fine, You just wasting a few dimes, and everything is fine. Holler Back Boy! (Obama should stop acting white)
