Mark Cuban: Amend U.S. Constitution to Make Healthcare a Right

PJ Media ^ | March 19, 2017 | Nicholas Ballasy

[C19fan]

Billionaire entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks Mark Cuban criticized the Congressional Budget Office’s use of a 10-year score to determine the effects of the Republicans' American Health Care Act and said the U.S. Constitution should be amended to make healthcare a right.

Cuban compared the CBO’s use of a decade timeframe to the ABC television show Shark Tank, where he stars as one of the investors that hears pitches from business owners. He said one- to four-year timeframes are better but “marginally predictable.”

[InterceptPoint]

Universal SexCare

Yikes. How could I miss such a BIGGIE!!!

[SandRat]

I'll think about making it so. AFTER taking as long this time, as it took the first time. Now let's see, it took how many centuries, how many wars, how many floods, how many depression's and how many Presidents?

[Titus-Maximus]

Stupid.

How is it that your fellow citizens owe you a doctor and a hospital?

How is it that your fellow citizens owe you a home, with no work nor contribution by your able-bodied self? How can that be?

That is not what the Founders ever imagined. That is a moronic utopia, that results in fewer and fewer contributors, and greater and greater non-paying consumers. We are borrowing money from China to pay for free health care for illegal aliens. Does anyone thing that is sustainable. We are on the road to debt perdition.

[A_Former_Democrat]

How about something constructive, Cubes . . . Amend the Constitution to get rid of “birthright citizenship”.

So the people who do your landscaping and clean your toilets can’t game the system

[cymbeline]

I can’t agree with his idea until he tell us how to control the cost. Some countries limit healthcare outlays by the government to a percentage of the GNP.

Just thought of something else. We now allow a person to prepare a “do not resuscitate” document.

Why not have people that don’t want health insurance prepare a document stating that they elect to not pay for insurance and that they also agree that any doctoring they get will be paid out of their own pocket.

[Bishop_Malachi]

The Left doesn’t have to go through the Amendment process. Just look at the “Gay Marriage” ruling. 5 judges can create new Constitutional rights whenever they feel like it.

[Twotone]

If it was a ‘right’ (i.e. God-given) we would all have good health all the time.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Go for it!

Liberals have been trying to get the so-called “Equal Rights Amendment” ratified since 1972.

In spite of trying to rig passage by extending the stipulated time period for ratification they have been unsuccessful.

[McBuff]

Why stop at healthcare. . .I want a right to be wealthy. . a right to be happy at all times. . .a right to my own personal chef and trainer. . .oh. . and a right to a bass boat. . .golf membership at a course of my choosing. . .ok that’s all for now. . .I’ll get back to you when I think of some more stuff I want a right to.

[alloysteel]

Whenever there is a right conferred, there are also duties and responsibilities that go along with those rights.

If the duties and responsibilities are not exercised, then the “right” becomes meaningless.

Whatever “right” one may have to ACCESS to health care, there is also the duty to avoid situations that may lead to having to seek the medical services, and the responsibility of assuring the services obtained are justly rewarded when rendered.

Medical services are, by their very nature, scarce, and access should be purely based upon NEED, not as an entitlement. As a scarce commodity, the rationing of medical services shall either be by price, or by deferral or outright denial.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Cuban’s no worse than Walmart. He’s a big supporter of “single payer”, i.e. government run healthcare.
There’s no way in Hades he covers the thousands who work at this movie theatres.

Why should Cuban use his profits to pay for his employees' health care insurance if he can get the government to extort money from you and me to pay for it?

/sarcasm off

[Defiant]

That would be the only right that requires other people to give you something.

[apillar]

Funny thing. I was talking to a friend of mine that immigrated from Russia in the 1990’s. He was talking about how under the Soviet constitution everyone had the right to free, unrestricted healthcare. (yes the Soviet Union actually had a Constitution that, on paper at least, guaranteed all sorts of rights). He said in reality health care was anything but free, it worked ok for basic services, but if you were diagnosed with cancer or another major illness, unless you were lucky enough to be a party boss you had better be slipping the doctor a few rubles under the table or your “free” medical care would be a bottle of morphine to ease the pain, a pat on the back, and sent home to die.

[Parmy]

He’s one of the reasons I don’t watch “Shark Tank.” There others, as well.

[Terry L Smith]

Dear mark cuban,

Just because your butt gets sick, doesn’t make it a right of forfeiture of my money to pay for your sick butt!

[Vlad The Inhaler]

He's a capitalist when it suits him and a socialist when he can get his hands on other people's money.

But I sure like his bread!

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[The Toll]

There is no such thing as a “right” that forces someone else to provide it to you Cuban, you moron!

[stephenjohnbanker]

We will start with Cuban’s 2.2 billion.........ok Mark ? a-hole.

[FreedomGuru]

Hey Marky why don’t you buy health insurance for those millions who need it? You buy enough policies you can get a good discount. Otherwise STFU.

[DaxtonBrown]

If healthcare is a right, then I want a $trillion in healthcare treatment. And I mean Right Now!