Posted on 05/11/2011 2:07:26 PM PDT by markomalley
A hearing of the Senate HELP Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging looked at emergency room use and took an odd turn Wednesday when Sen. Rand Paul compared the “right to health care” to slavery.
“With regard to the idea whether or not you have a right to health care you have to realize what that implies. I am a physician. You have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. You are going to enslave not only me but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants, the nurses. … You are basically saying you believe in slavery,” said Paul (R-Ky.), who is an ophthalmologist.
Paul, who is the subcommittee ranking member, said he believed that the notion of expanding federally funded community health centers to ensure that everyone had a “right” to care was not constitutional and would enslave doctors. Doctors, he said, should care for patients because of their own moral code.
“Our founding documents said you have a right to pursue happiness, but there’s no guarantee about physical comfort. When you say you have a ‘right’ to something there is an implication of force. ... I will always treat people who come into the ER because that is what we always have done and because I believe in the Hippocratic Oath.”
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I understand what he’s saying, but this soundbite is going to come back to bite him. And all that will be reported is the soundbite that “a right to health care is the same as slavery.” It’s already making the rounds in the leftosphere, and in the MFM (but I repeat myself).
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Birth Rights ONLY COME FROM OUR CREATOR and not government....
So to force some Americans to pay for others is a form of slavery.
Countdown to posters here calling Rand Paul a racist...
The “right to health care” implies a right to force someone else to PROVIDE that health care.
He’s 100% correct. The leftists’ heads will explode. So what? They say things that make our heads explode all the time.
The difference? They keep saying them until they become accepted fact.
We don’t. We - or rather too many of our weak-spined GOP politicians - just shut up for fear of offending the left.
How about we try it their way this time?
This isn’t a complaint about nondiscrimination rules in a free market. It’s a complaint about what happens when a free market doesn’t suffice to meet all desires and busybodies attempt to intervene to make it meet all desires anyway.
I would like to see this logic applied to public education. If public education was a right, then nobody could be denied an education for any reason, including the inability or unwillingness to pay!
So? Let it.
They don’t shut up when we think what they say is nuts. They just keep repeating it in different forms until their craziness is accepted fact. Witness the state of the nation and the voting populace for far too many examples.
How about we do it their way this time?
This is what I’ve been saying.
I am a registered nurse. I have a knowledge of medical care, etc. If healthcare is a “right”, then it would be a given that I be required to provide the care, even without compensation.
I hope all those nurses in unions understand the concept. If healthcare is a right, it must be provided. Stop complaining about patient loads and pay rates. They don’t matter in this higher calling. /s
This country is a democracy. Through voting it can create whatever rights the voters want.
Odd that Politico considers Rand Paul’s statement odd. What he said was a truism. The essence of slavery is that one person has a right to the fruits of another person’s labor. To say that people have a right to health care is to say that health care providers don’t own their own time and their own skills. They owe service to those who need or want it. Dr. Paul knows exactly what he’s talking about and, as usual, Politico has all the depth of a grade school student paper.
Well, the solution is to rally around Paul and explain it to the idiots over and over until they get it.
He is precisely right. If someone has a “right” to healthcare then that means that someone else must eventually be forced to provide it.
“This country is a democracy. Through voting it can create whatever rights the voters want.”
We have a Constitutional Republic. Thank God Almighty that we don’t have a democracy!
Really? I was under the impression it was a republic.
Really? I was under the impression it was a republic.
“I love my job. I do not feel like a slave,” Kraus said.
Well dear lady if you like I are paying 50% of your income in taxes you are a slave. YOU may be happy in your chains but I am not.
Rand was trying to simplify and direct the slave concept to the healthcare issue directly but it has been intentionally defused by the socialist so as to make the slavery palatable to the people. Those of us that pay taxes in this country have been enslaved to the recipient class.
When the 50% of us who pay federal income tax to the finance the other 50% who do not pay the tax so that they may live above their means at our expense; that my friends is slavery.
I swear, I’d vote for this man even if I saw a video of him sacrificing goats.
Ummm.... wrong on both counts. First, this country is a representative republic.
Second, you should re-read the Declaration of Independence. It refers to rights as those thing which our Creator endows us with, which are “inalienable” - meaning the government can't take them away. In fact, the government is responsible for protecting these rights, and derives its authority from the consent of the governed.
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