Or all those fat asses. Right?
If health care is a privilege are you willing to turn away everyone who shows up at the hospital without enough money to pay up front? It is very American to resist giving people a free ride, but I don’t think anyone here is prepared to do that. If you say you are, you’re lying.
I take as my individual Christian responsibility to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, clothe the naked and care for the sick - and so do a lot of other Americans. It's called charity. I'd be able to do a lot more of it if government wasn't stealing my means to do so through taxes. Who do you think did these things before Big Government? Who built hospitals? Schools? Food pantries?
Government wants to force people to do this, that's not charity; it's theft.
Where did this thought come from! Of course the answer is yes! But that is imperatively the answer only as far as it goes.
Are we to infer that you accept government must insert itself into the mix to keep individuals alive?
I say without the horribly misguided reliance on the great grand government nanny, charities, families, and individuals would devote a more reasonable and focused effort to provide and improve health care.
We all know that our grandparents visited a doctor only a few times in their whole lives. Allowing the government to take control will send us all down a path where a medtech behind a bullet-proof glass with dictate who is or is not served by the last living doctor in each socialist locality.
Our U.S. Constitution does not have an article that allows government to provide socialist health care.