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Poll to FREEP: Do you believe health insurance is a right or a privilege?
WFMB ^ | September 1, 2009 | steeler6

Posted on 09/01/2009 9:50:27 PM PDT by Steelers6

Do you believe health insurance is a right or a privilege? 47%A right. 52.9%A privilege. Vote See results


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: insurance; poll; privilege; right
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1 posted on 09/01/2009 9:50:28 PM PDT by Steelers6
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To: Steelers6

Poll is on left hand side of page.


2 posted on 09/01/2009 9:51:31 PM PDT by Steelers6
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To: Steelers6

I voted and it’s still 52.9? Don’t they know who I am???


3 posted on 09/01/2009 9:52:35 PM PDT by tubebender
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To: Steelers6

That’s a push poll.

Everyone has
A) an entitlement to sex
B) a right to seek it out on their own


4 posted on 09/01/2009 9:53:15 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Kennedycare?Recall that "Animal Farm" begins with a Socialist Revolution to honor Big Major's legacy)
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To: Steelers6

I believe vetrinary care should be a right of zoophiles.


5 posted on 09/01/2009 9:53:31 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (0bummer uses George Orwell's book "1984" as a "How To" guide.)
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To: Steelers6

It is a privilege. Because if it was a right, government would be able to force a doctor to provide it. But I have an idea: anyone of the blithering idiots who think it should be a right should go to med school to provide that right to others. Without profit, of course.


6 posted on 09/01/2009 9:54:45 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable, and unambiguous clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: tubebender

Cynthia McKinney, is that you?


7 posted on 09/01/2009 9:55:21 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable, and unambiguous clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Steelers6

If it costs 5K to get checked out in the ER because I faint and bump my head, I vote yes, its a right.

If the price were 500 bucks, for the same care, I’d vote no.

The cost structure of medical services in the country is
inflated beyond all reason.


8 posted on 09/01/2009 9:55:25 PM PDT by rahbert
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To: Steelers6

BTTT!


9 posted on 09/01/2009 9:56:17 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (http://www.conservatives4palin.com/)
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To: Steelers6

It’s an idiotic poll and the station should be called on it. HC insurance came about due to Government limiting compensation (doesn’t THAT sound familiar?)


10 posted on 09/01/2009 9:57:56 PM PDT by This_far
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To: Steelers6

Neither ... is merely a business contract.


11 posted on 09/01/2009 9:59:37 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: Steelers6

Do you believe health insurance is a right or a privilege?

47%
A right.
52.9%
A privilege.

Poor question.

Now, here’s mine: Do you believe that a ham sandwich is a right or a privilege?


12 posted on 09/01/2009 9:59:44 PM PDT by Gator113 (It's about stupidity, stupid. IMPEACH HERE, IMPEACH NOW.)
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To: Steelers6
<<Heavy sigh>>

Health insurance is neither a right nor a privilege. It is a product.

13 posted on 09/01/2009 9:59:56 PM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: Steelers6

stupid question. health insurance is NEITHER a right nor a privilege.

it’s a product that individuals or employers can buy in the free market if they choose.


14 posted on 09/01/2009 10:02:23 PM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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To: rahbert
The cost structure of medical services in the country is
inflated beyond all reason.

Tends to happen when you break the feedback loop between price and demand. And add a ton of overhead trying to replicate it.

15 posted on 09/01/2009 10:02:33 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: SeeSharp

Do you believe health insurance is a right or a privilege?
34.9%A right.
65%A privilege.

Good point but it wasn’t an option in the poll.


16 posted on 09/01/2009 10:02:40 PM PDT by Steelers6
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To: Steelers6

Health insurance is neither a right nor a privilage. It is a service and a for-profit business enterprise made available to consumers by providers for a fee, subject to free market economics and the laws of supply and demand. Nothing more, nothing less.


17 posted on 09/01/2009 10:05:55 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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Hey man, I'm huungery. It's a right. And I want mine right now.
18 posted on 09/01/2009 10:10:12 PM PDT by ditto h
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To: SeeSharp
Health insurance is neither a right nor a privilege. It is a product.

Does the government, as a provider, retain the right to use Ted Kennedy's (shudder) image to promote their product? (after all, he didn't complete his contract)

I'm already envisioning Teddy kommercials for health kare.

And some of you thought that the computer gen'd Orville Reddenbacker popcorn commercials were creepy...

19 posted on 09/01/2009 10:11:55 PM PDT by This_far
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To: Steelers6

Everyone has a right to pursue a job/career etc that may lead to their having health care coverage. I stress the word, “pursue”.


20 posted on 09/01/2009 10:12:14 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier whose wife is expecting twins.)
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