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To: pabianice
...decent quality health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege."

The government does not have the right to create "rights", but it certainly tries its best! The government cannot create privileges either, all it can do is prevent you from something if you do not "qualify" (pass a test affirming your ability).

I fear a government that tries to "create" rights.

17 posted on 08/26/2009 12:00:26 PM PDT by jeffc (They're coming to take me away! Ha-ha, hey-hey, ho-ho!)
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To: jeffc

Well, health care sure is a right! I have a right to food and clothes and a house and a new car, too.


23 posted on 08/26/2009 12:03:06 PM PDT by Genoa
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To: jeffc
The government cannot create privileges either, all it can do is prevent you from something...

Exactly right - and what's left after they prevent you from various freedoms, are called privileges. So, if you think it through, the only way to justify this process is if ALL freedoms are first denied, and then SOME aspects of them are allowed as privileges.

The word "privilege" is the most devious of all legalisms, for even the largest and most munificent allowance of them still indicates the underlying loss of all true freedom. If only people could understand that...

...but they don't, they don't wanna, and they ain't gonna. Compared to the federal government, P.T. Barnum was a piker.

37 posted on 08/26/2009 12:14:08 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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