Is health care a privilege?

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Chelseamae6

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It's not a government or god given right like some people claim. I think health care would be more of a right than the insurance. NOW they want to make it illegal if you try to get care w/o having insurance. It should also never be compared to how we are required to have car insurance because you don't have to have a car.
 
I think it's more of a responsibility.

If one doesn't have health insurance, then goes into the hospital for emergency care, I don't think they should have the right to declare bankruptcy.
I think they should have to pay the bill.
 
Preamble: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a
more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic
Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote
the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to
ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this
Constitution for the United States of America.
Specifically:
Article 1 Section 8 The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes,
Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide
for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United
States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform
throughout the United States;
Is Defence of our country a privilege ? I think it is a right, just as important as payment of Debts and the general Welfare.of our country.
 
So, people that cannot produce enough wealth to buy healthcare do not deserve it? You're talking about babies, old people and sick people.
 
Depends on what the people want. A bit like the fire service, not mandated in the constitution.

I do not understand why so many Americans have fallen for lies about healthcare in the USA, abroad and also the planned reforms [1]. I mean, if the healthcare system in the USA is so good, why have no other nations taken it up? Could it be due to the following facts?
FACT - the USA spends more on healthcare PER PERSON than any other nation on the planet [2].
FACT - the US has higher death rates for kids under five than western European countries with universal health coverage [3].
Or if the US healthcare system is run so well, why not run the fire service like the healthcare system? [4]
Maybe that is because in the USA, insurance companies push up costs, buy politicians and refuse to pay claims that people pay for [5]. (Look up Wendell Potter on YouTube to hear more if the link below is too long.)
Obama wants to make insurance cheaper, stop insurance companies from refusing health coverage to those with pre-existing conditions, and make sure they pay out when they are meant to [6], a system similar to that which works in Taiwan [7]. He debated this before he was elected [8].
Is it right that a dead American four year old would have had a better chance of life if they were born in Canada, Cuba, Germany and so many other industrialised nations with universal healthcare?
If you think my arguments are wrong, e-mail me with proof. But if you can not, let Obama try to help America. If he fails, vote him out in 2012.
 
It's in there, it's right between the part in the Constitution that covers "Executive Privilege" and the "Air Force", you can't miss it.
 
It fits in the Declaration of Independance.

"right to LIFE, liberty..."


Same argument used to defend the pro-life position: the right to life.
 
It fits in the Declaration of Independance.

"right to LIFE, liberty..."


Same argument used to defend the pro-life position: the right to life.
 
-Yes, it is. Just like education. The only thing we are entitled to is oxygen. The other things that we acquire in life should be earned. You make your own way and I'll make mine.
 
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