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Mark Cuban: Amend U.S. Constitution to Make Healthcare a Right
PJ Media ^ | March 19, 2017 | Nicholas Ballasy

Posted on 03/20/2017 7:26:05 AM PDT by C19fan

Billionaire entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks Mark Cuban criticized the Congressional Budget Office’s use of a 10-year score to determine the effects of the Republicans' American Health Care Act and said the U.S. Constitution should be amended to make healthcare a right.

Cuban compared the CBO’s use of a decade timeframe to the ABC television show Shark Tank, where he stars as one of the investors that hears pitches from business owners. He said one- to four-year timeframes are better but “marginally predictable.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism
KEYWORDS: health; rights
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To: Red Badger
Universal SexCare

Yikes. How could I miss such a BIGGIE!!!

61 posted on 03/20/2017 8:05:43 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
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To: C19fan
I'll think about making it so. AFTER taking as long this time, as it took the first time. Now let's see, it took how many centuries, how many wars, how many floods, how many depression's and how many Presidents?
62 posted on 03/20/2017 8:05:56 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: C19fan

Stupid.

How is it that your fellow citizens owe you a doctor and a hospital?

How is it that your fellow citizens owe you a home, with no work nor contribution by your able-bodied self? How can that be?

That is not what the Founders ever imagined. That is a moronic utopia, that results in fewer and fewer contributors, and greater and greater non-paying consumers. We are borrowing money from China to pay for free health care for illegal aliens. Does anyone thing that is sustainable. We are on the road to debt perdition.


63 posted on 03/20/2017 8:10:42 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: C19fan

How about something constructive, Cubes . . . Amend the Constitution to get rid of “birthright citizenship”.

So the people who do your landscaping and clean your toilets can’t game the system


64 posted on 03/20/2017 8:10:45 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW! BOYCOTT Mexico nba NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: C19fan

I can’t agree with his idea until he tell us how to control the cost. Some countries limit healthcare outlays by the government to a percentage of the GNP.

Just thought of something else. We now allow a person to prepare a “do not resuscitate” document.

Why not have people that don’t want health insurance prepare a document stating that they elect to not pay for insurance and that they also agree that any doctoring they get will be paid out of their own pocket.


65 posted on 03/20/2017 8:12:23 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: C19fan

The Left doesn’t have to go through the Amendment process. Just look at the “Gay Marriage” ruling. 5 judges can create new Constitutional rights whenever they feel like it.


66 posted on 03/20/2017 8:15:38 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: C19fan

If it was a ‘right’ (i.e. God-given) we would all have good health all the time.


67 posted on 03/20/2017 8:17:24 AM PDT by Twotone (Truth is hate to those who hate truth.)
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To: C19fan

Go for it!

Liberals have been trying to get the so-called “Equal Rights Amendment” ratified since 1972.

In spite of trying to rig passage by extending the stipulated time period for ratification they have been unsuccessful.


68 posted on 03/20/2017 8:19:46 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ("Prepare Now - You never know when today really is the day before.....)
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To: C19fan

Why stop at healthcare. . .I want a right to be wealthy. . a right to be happy at all times. . .a right to my own personal chef and trainer. . .oh. . and a right to a bass boat. . .golf membership at a course of my choosing. . .ok that’s all for now. . .I’ll get back to you when I think of some more stuff I want a right to.


69 posted on 03/20/2017 8:22:43 AM PDT by McBuff
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To: BuffaloJack

Whenever there is a right conferred, there are also duties and responsibilities that go along with those rights.

If the duties and responsibilities are not exercised, then the “right” becomes meaningless.

Whatever “right” one may have to ACCESS to health care, there is also the duty to avoid situations that may lead to having to seek the medical services, and the responsibility of assuring the services obtained are justly rewarded when rendered.

Medical services are, by their very nature, scarce, and access should be purely based upon NEED, not as an entitlement. As a scarce commodity, the rationing of medical services shall either be by price, or by deferral or outright denial.


70 posted on 03/20/2017 8:22:54 AM PDT by alloysteel (John Galt has chosen to take the job. This time, Atlas did NOT shrug.)
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To: Night Hides Not
Cuban’s no worse than Walmart. He’s a big supporter of “single payer”, i.e. government run healthcare.
There’s no way in Hades he covers the thousands who work at this movie theatres.

Why should Cuban use his profits to pay for his employees' health care insurance if he can get the government to extort money from you and me to pay for it?

/sarcasm off


71 posted on 03/20/2017 8:24:34 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ("Prepare Now - You never know when today really is the day before.....)
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To: C19fan

That would be the only right that requires other people to give you something.


72 posted on 03/20/2017 8:27:11 AM PDT by Defiant (The media is the colostomy bag where truth goes after democrats digest it.)
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To: C19fan
Funny thing. I was talking to a friend of mine that immigrated from Russia in the 1990’s. He was talking about how under the Soviet constitution everyone had the right to free, unrestricted healthcare. (yes the Soviet Union actually had a Constitution that, on paper at least, guaranteed all sorts of rights). He said in reality health care was anything but free, it worked ok for basic services, but if you were diagnosed with cancer or another major illness, unless you were lucky enough to be a party boss you had better be slipping the doctor a few rubles under the table or your “free” medical care would be a bottle of morphine to ease the pain, a pat on the back, and sent home to die.
73 posted on 03/20/2017 8:27:51 AM PDT by apillar
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To: Trump20162020

He’s one of the reasons I don’t watch “Shark Tank.” There others, as well.


74 posted on 03/20/2017 8:28:02 AM PDT by Parmy (II don't know how to past the images.)
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To: C19fan

Dear mark cuban,

Just because your butt gets sick, doesn’t make it a right of forfeiture of my money to pay for your sick butt!


75 posted on 03/20/2017 8:29:59 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: C19fan
He's a capitalist when it suits him and a socialist when he can get his hands on other people's money.

But I sure like his bread!

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76 posted on 03/20/2017 8:30:41 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ("Prepare Now - You never know when today really is the day before.....)
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To: C19fan

There is no such thing as a “right” that forces someone else to provide it to you Cuban, you moron!


77 posted on 03/20/2017 8:30:47 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: C19fan

We will start with Cuban’s 2.2 billion.........ok Mark ? a-hole.


78 posted on 03/20/2017 8:33:45 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: C19fan

Hey Marky why don’t you buy health insurance for those millions who need it? You buy enough policies you can get a good discount. Otherwise STFU.


79 posted on 03/20/2017 8:36:27 AM PDT by FreedomGuru (Clinton a gazillion wrong moves)
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To: C19fan

If healthcare is a right, then I want a $trillion in healthcare treatment. And I mean Right Now!


80 posted on 03/20/2017 8:36:37 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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