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HILLARY: HEALTH CARE IS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT
NY Daily News ^ | February 18, 2008 | Michael McAuliff

Posted on 02/22/2008 4:36:57 PM PST by Daffynition

Hillary Clinton just raised her campaign pledge for universal health care to the level of a new Constitutional right, telling a crowd in De Pere, Wis., today that the way things stand in America it’s OK to discriminate against the sick.

It’s actually an idea being floated by Wisconsin Rep. Steve Kagen, a doctor who introduced Clinton here at St. Norbert’s College. (She gave him credit.)

But Hillary embraced it wholly, and made it her own.

“Under our Constitution, no one is supposed to be discriminated against. That’s part of our values, that’s our law in America. Except sick people can be discriminated against,” she said, recouting Kagen’s argument, which he plans to try and turn into legislation.

“When you’re sick you can lose your insurance; when you’re sick, you can be charged so much more that you can’t pay for it,” before segueing into her own familiar litany of people’s health care tragedies, and apparently embracing Kagen’s concept.

“We have to start asking ourselves, ‘Do we want to enshrine discrimination in our health care system, the one area where of our lives where we’re most vulnerable?’” Clinton told the crowd.

“The Constitution says you can’t discriminate against somebody because of what color they are or what religion they are,” she went on. “Why is it OK to discriminate against somebody who is born with a heart defect, or who is diagnosed with prostate cancer?

“I think it’s time we say, ‘We’re not going to let the health insurance industry say who lives and who dies.and who gets health care in this country,” she concluded to applause that drowned out her final words.

Rep. Kagen, it seems, is onto something in his district around Green Bay.depereA021808.jpg For her part, Clinton has talked about health care being a moral right, but we can’t recall her ever elevating it to the Constitutional level before. We’re betting we hear more of this from her.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hillarycare; socialism; socializedmedicine
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To: FJB2
The Constitution is not a full ennumeration of our rights therefore you will not find all of our rights in there

Our rights are God given and the Constitution outlines limits on the federal government. The Bill of Rights outlines things the government can't do and was never intended to list all our rights. Hillary is full of it.

41 posted on 02/22/2008 5:08:37 PM PST by plain talk
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To: gorush

Article 1, Section 8. It’s all very clear, if she ever bothered to read it.


42 posted on 02/22/2008 5:08:56 PM PST by huckfillary (qual tyo ta)
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To: FJB2

For me, rights are just a recognition of free-will and individual liberty. There is no right to security, but you do have a right to secure yourself, your family, and property to the best of your ability. There is no right to be healthy, but there should be a recognition of individual pursuit of health or rejection of it (to me, a law against fast food is as immoral as a law against exercise - the intended consequence of the law means nothing compared to its treatment of free-will).

The only rights that can be conditional on government action are the ones that limit governments’ arbitrary powers - like requiring a warrant for search & seizure.

BTW, 9th 10th amendments are my favorites.


43 posted on 02/22/2008 5:11:35 PM PST by underground
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To: Daffynition
Be afraid. Very afraid.

It is only a matter of time before George Washington is replaced with Karl Marx as the father of this nation.

Not only am I afraid I am heartbroken that drivel like this from both her and BHO is championed by so many.

This is NOT the dream our forefathers had in mind!!

44 posted on 02/22/2008 5:11:48 PM PST by PISANO
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To: huckfillary

I sense that you replied to the wrong poster.


45 posted on 02/22/2008 5:12:10 PM PST by gorush (Exterminate the Moops!)
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To: VR-21
She's probabaly rerferring to Article 1, Section 8 on 'General Welfare'

Article 1 - The Legislative Branch
Section 8 - Powers of Congress
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes,
Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and
provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of
the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises
shall be uniform throughout the United States;

46 posted on 02/22/2008 5:13:46 PM PST by South40 (Amnesty is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: Daffynition

I think it comes right after the “Right to Drive” amendment.


47 posted on 02/22/2008 5:14:56 PM PST by toddlintown (Michelle Obama; Teresa Heinz, minus the gin-soaked raisins.)
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To: squidly
The sign up on the wall at the local emergency room says that if you have a life threatening condition, they are obligated to treat you, regardless of whether or not you are insured or have the ability to pay. Ditto if you are in labor. So who is being discriminated against?

The people that end up paying for the "life threatening condition" or the "labor".


48 posted on 02/22/2008 5:18:45 PM PST by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: Daffynition

Of course, in a sane world the notion that something is a right is not equated with the idea that the government should tax the populace at large and distribute the revenues to pay for the means to exercise the right.

Freedom of press is a right explicitly enumerated in the Constitution. Before we tax everyone to provide the means to exercise a ‘right’ to health care, the same logic would demand that anyone who wants to publish a newspaper should receive a government subsidy to do so.

With the Founder’s understanding of rights, one might very well adduce a ‘right to health care’ from the Constitution, meaning only that the government has a responsibility to not pass laws which would prevent people from engaging physicians or seeking other medical treatment. Of course the goverment does quite the opposite by banning drugs found to be therapeutic in oversea clinical trials, regulating traditional healers, placing onerous requirements on midwives, and the like.

In a sane world, ‘health care’ means access to treatment. All Americans have access to health care, since there are requirements for the provision of emergency treatment with the cost borne by the hospital if the patient is indigent, and all Americans can pay a physician or go to clinics where physicians do pro bono work,

Of course, in the lunatic world of the left, ‘health care’ means ‘health insurance’, and a ‘right’ to it seems to mean an obligation to buy it.

Plainly if the demonRATs had their way, anything which is not forbidden would be compulsory.


49 posted on 02/22/2008 5:18:50 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: Eagle Eye

>>Food and shelter are even more fundamental than healthcare.

But does that mean that we all get the same menu or same accomodations regardless of ability to pay?<<

Exactly.


50 posted on 02/22/2008 5:19:49 PM PST by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: gondramB

Well, let’s hear it for housing. And transportation. And while we’re at it, we can look to Europe for guidelines regarding our constitutional rights.


51 posted on 02/22/2008 5:20:55 PM PST by Rudder
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To: Hazwaste
I'd rather have this:

Than national healthcare. I will be able to afford the above long before I will be able to afford Hillarycare.

JP

52 posted on 02/22/2008 5:21:21 PM PST by EscapedDutch (I spent $5,000 to become a LEGAL resident of the US. If illegals get amnesty, I demand a refund!)
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To: ricks_place

I don’t know what it is, but everytime I see a picture of her, I think “high class call girl”.


53 posted on 02/22/2008 5:23:06 PM PST by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Hunter '08)
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To: Daffynition

What does Toast know of the Constitution?

54 posted on 02/22/2008 5:24:34 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Never say never (there'll be a VP you'll like))
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To: SandRat; plain talk; underground

The Bill of Rights is not a full listing of our rights that is why the 9th and 10th are included. I know our rights are God given but how do we determine what are rights and what are merely privleges? The 9th seems to open up almost anything as a right to us as long as the Consitution does not allow the govt to limit or regulate whatever “it” is.

9th amendment: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”

In other words there are some out there that were not included by the founders.

I’ve asked attorneys this and have not gotten a satisfying answer.


55 posted on 02/22/2008 5:24:35 PM PST by Round 9
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To: Daffynition
Whe someone else gets sick she wants to deprive me of my property. Hmmm. Where have I heard that word used before?

ML/NJ

56 posted on 02/22/2008 5:26:03 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: FJB2

Since Canada and England have people dying from socialized medicine, and we don’t have many cases of people dying for lack of capitalist care, I would argue that socialized medicine DEFINITIVELY DEPRIVES CITIZENS OF THE RIGHT TO LIFE, thus IS UNconstitutional.


57 posted on 02/22/2008 5:26:34 PM PST by tbw2 (Science fiction with real science - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
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To: squidly

I have to treat all pts whether they have insurance or not. I treat several uninsured patients daily. There is no discrimination
I will NOT work for Hilary or Obama under a socialized medicine plan. IF she pushes this through, good luck finding physicians to treat the patients. (at least competent ones)


58 posted on 02/22/2008 5:27:00 PM PST by Mom MD (The scorn of fools is music to the ears of the wise)
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To: Daffynition
“The Constitution says you can’t discriminate against somebody because of what color they are or what religion they are,” she went on. “Why is it OK to discriminate against somebody who is born with a heart defect, or who is diagnosed with prostate cancer?

Because it's not *discrimination*, Senator Bubble-head... it's an accident of Nature.

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They're starting to push this collective crapola just a bit too far, IMHO!

59 posted on 02/22/2008 5:28:23 PM PST by MamaTexan (** ~ Government was not instituted to create the Law, but to follow it ~ **)
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To: period end of story

Okay then. If health care is a constitutional right, does that mean a certain number of people have an obligation under the constitution to go medical school so they can provide for my health care?


60 posted on 02/22/2008 5:28:43 PM PST by Hound of the Baskervilles ("Nonsense in the intellect draws evil after it." C.S. Lewis)
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