Posted on 08/31/2009 9:07:49 PM PDT by aaronopine
Proponents of a government-run health system would like us to believe that universal health care is a right owed to every citizen of the United States of America (and illegal aliens). However, this assertion is plagued with the typical liberal-logic, which is almost always completely devoid of any actual logic and common sense. Let’s examine their notion in greater detail.
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Well, legal representation is a right.
Food is a right.
Now, health insurance is a right.
Wow, why do I work so hard?
This isn’t RIGHT!
While I sit on my ass doing nothing, I am due, 3 full square meals a day, a roof over my head, a state paid doctor to meet my needs.
Yup...it’s right there in the Constitution...at least I think it is...right next to the free health care right...hold on...can’t seem to find it...that’s strange.
Note that I didn’t even need to refer to the Constitution to refute this dumb argument.
Let’s see, what other human “needs” can we magically transform into state-sponsored rights:
Food?
Housing?
Clothing?
Humans need companionship. Should the state be obligated to provide companionship? If so, how would THAT work?
Entertainment?
If you’re a fascist and you can’t come up with a coherent argument for some entitlement handout you want, just throw tantrums insisting that it is a ‘right’. Right out of the Leftist playbook.
Sounds like prison
I heard some libtard caller on some radio show the other day who claimed that the “life” part of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is where you find the “inalienable right” to healthcare in the Constitution. Because, of course, if you’re, like, dead, then you don’t have life — so, you know, everyone has a right to health care to protect their life.
Never mind that that phrase is in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.
Also never mind that that phrase came from John Locke, whose original quote was that “no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.” Well, I’d say that Obamacare is going to harm a lot of others in their life and health!
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ATTENTION FELLOW TEXANS:
Governor Rick Perry may invoke the 10th Amendment over Obama’s health care bill (Vanity)
7/23/09 | Cowtowney
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2299225/posts?q=1&;page=51
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No! NO you don’t, you muzzie pos. You’re not denying our seniors deserved health care while insuring millions of illegal aliens and while Demorats are REJECTING Obamacare for themselves and their families!
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Dear Governor Perry,
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Facts about the 10th Amendment:
The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791. The Tenth Amendment restates the Constitution’s principle of Federalism by providing that powers not granted to the national government nor prohibited to the states are reserved to the states or the people.
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I heard “health care is a right” recently in a grocery store.
I replied, “Then why are you on the left?” and kept walking.
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That means that health care providers have no individual rights. The collective right of the people to receive health care would supersede the provider's individual right to set their fees, their hours or change their occupational status or even decide how to apply their skills and knowledge. A collective right, by practical definition, is a state right because it is a right that is provided by the government to all not protected by the government as something possessed by each person. It is also a state right because it supersedes the individual rights of others when the two come into conflict.
It isn't stated in any of the bills that a patient's rights to care supersedes a provider's right to set fees and hours etc, but it doesn't need to. Rights are always adjudicated in the courts. The legislation simply establishes the foundation for the courts to rule in favor of the patient's collective right to health care.
Weiner’s view is collectivist, fascist and totalitarian. Collectivist because it is superior to an individual right. Fascist because it is overseen by one entity the Federal government. Totalitarian because the Federal government is the true possessor of this collective right and the administrator and enforcer of it as well.
Congressman Weiner's view is the underlying philosophy of the entire Health Care Reform legislation the House and Senate have put forth. Consider the setting up of community watch dogs to monitor various health parameters of citizens in the Senate version of the bill. Look at pages 382 - 393.
TITLE I—QUALITY, AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL AMERICANS
Even the citizens themselves will be subject to state set regulations on their behavior in order to fulfill the human right of universal health care. It isn't the individual's liberty that is being protected by that it is the state's control over its health care system that is being guarded. How much clearer can it be that these bills abrogate the concept of individual rights?
Health Care is a Liberty Issue Conservative Underground - 18 August 2009 - Tim Dunkin
Second Bill of Rights aka FDR's economic bill of rights (An early attempt to embed collective rights into American politics and society.)
Seems to me that Universal Health Care fails both of these simple tests.
Next time someone tells you it is a right, ask them "OK, name one other 'right' that the government can fine me $10,000 for failing to exercise?"
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