It irks me to hear people have a right to health care. Oh really, where do they think it comes from? Health care, it seems to me, is expertise of people who have devoted time and effort to develop it. Nobody has a right to that.
While I agree with this, I think that it might be a good thing to for the government to pick up catastrophic situations that bankrupt families, such as some rare cancer. FEMA on a family level.
Like my views on welfare - not a right, but allow society to pick someone up off the ground so they can get out and help pull others out of the mire.
Unfortunately, politicians have a habit of turning safety nets into hammocks, and take tax dollars from the productive to buy votes. Utilitarianism is held hostage to the Kennedys and the Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton poverty pimps.
Agreed. Plus the experts don't have a right to restrain competitors, save through competition in free enterprise.