Posted on 08/15/2010 1:11:15 AM PDT by Nachum
If you read British newspapers, you know their universal health care system is cutting more and more services. There, everyone's right to health care is becoming the right to no care. Do we want that in the USA?
Health care as a right means that people are entitled to medical care services, just like free speech and the right to assemble. We do not have to do anything to get them. They are ours by right, and they are free. We have no responsibility and therefore no personal control and/or need to make decisions.
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If healthcare is a right . . .
Then the government has to provide it . . .
When has the government had to power to ration rights?
Oh, that right . . . Healthcare won't be rationed . .
Only what the government pays will be rationed.
Just as with Medicare, if you want more, you'll be able to buy "supplemental" insurance. Which won't be under the same guidelines as regular insurance.
So insurance companies will rake in the bucks, still.
Wealthy contributors and politicians (who will back charge the taxpayers for their insurance, as they do now) will get what they want, still.
And the rest of the U.S. will get $crewed . . .
still.
The idea of socialized medicine is that no one will have any better medical care than anyone else (except for aparatchiks, of course). But to assure that, socialized medicine has to actively oppose health care provision not paid for by the government. And THAT doesn't even rise to the level of neglect.
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