celticwar17
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You do not have a right to someone else's services. Healthcare is not a right... call it something else...
What about the civil servants. Do we have a right to what they provide?You do not have a right to someone else's services. Healthcare is not a right... call it something else...
You do not have a right to someone else's services. Healthcare is not a right... call it something else...
If you pay taxes, you have a right to certain government services. That's what you pay taxes for. Why do you pay taxes if not to make it possible for the community to provide services.
People who don't have much money aren't entitled to health care?
How?
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Neither, it's a service sold on the free market.
Is healthcare a right or a privilege.
I would assume if you believe healthcare is a right, than everyone should have access to healthcare, and for many, free healthcare. If healthcare is free, than who would be the ones paying for it?
Is healthcare a right or a privilege.
I would assume if you believe healthcare is a right, than everyone should have access to healthcare, and for many, free healthcare. If healthcare is free, than who would be the ones paying for it?
This is where I teasingly get called a "fake conservative" by a few of my friends because I believe that basic & preventive healthcare should be accessible to everyone.
For profit healthcare goes against the grain with me.......always has.
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The same people who pay insurance premiums every month.. except everyone pays.. in single-payer.
Many people in this country can't afford a premium payment.
Many people in this country can't afford a premium payment.
It is not an inherent right. (Otherwise we wouldn't need doctor's to provide it to us) It is a privilege of citizenship if and only if the citizenry agrees and accepts this responsibility.
Think of it like we do the obligations we accept to pay for provision of mutual defense, justice, and education.
So if we as a society accept the idea that we can and should afford citizens at least some basic form of healthcare protection, then this obligates us to cooperate in funding and becomes a shared privilege of citizenship.
At the end of the day it matters not. The real debate is how you accomplish the goal for all to have access to health care in an affordable, timely and sustainable way, otherwise the song remains the same.
Is healthcare a right or a privilege.
I would assume if you believe healthcare is a right, than everyone should have access to healthcare, and for many, free healthcare. If healthcare is free, than who would be the ones paying for it?
Is healthcare a right or a privilege.
I would assume if you believe healthcare is a right, than everyone should have access to healthcare, and for many, free healthcare. If healthcare is free, than who would be the ones paying for it?
Where in the US Constitution, without undue contortions and distortions, does it state that healthcare is a right?
Let's say you are in charge of hospital admitting. An individual shows up that is having a heart attack. They don't have insurance, and obviously have no ability to pay for their care. Do you turn them out into the street? I doubt you would because you would not be able to sleep at night if you did. So guess what, for that reason, healthcare is a right. We might not like it, we might wish people were more responsible, but because we all go to be able to sleep at night, for all intents and purposes it is a right. We may as well as accept that and then we can figure out how best to pay for it.
Neither, it's a service sold on the free market.
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The same people who pay insurance premiums every month.. except everyone pays.. in single-payer.
Is healthcare a right or a privilege.
I would assume if you believe healthcare is a right, than everyone should have access to healthcare, and for many, free healthcare. If healthcare is free, than who would be the ones paying for it?