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One of the top drawer notions that’s driven the progressive agenda since the New Deal is the idea of a “Second Bill of Rights” It is the idea that you have a “right” to housing, a “right” to a job and a “right” to health care. One of Maobama’s “czars”, the “regulatory czar”, is Cass Sunstein, a flaming liberal who completely believes in the second “bill of rights.” The difference however, between the Constitutional Bill of Rights and the left’s 2nd Bill of Rights is the Constitutional Bill does not reach into other peoples’ wallet. The 2nd Bill of Rights is essentially a “right” to other peoples’ money. My personal position is, if you can walk, talk, have two hands, eyes, can string a few words together to communicate with your fellow humans, then you have no “right” to sponge off of me for ANYTHING. Not your housing, not your health care, nothing…
Hey, we’re all “best of friends”. We LOVE each other. After all, what’s yours is mine and what’s mine is, well, mine, right?
Health care is neither a Right nor a Privilege. It is a Commodity and should be addressed as such. You get what you pay for.
If a government run system is so desirable why do you suppose CON-gress exempted itself?
It cannot save money given who wil be in charge. BO admits the debt we now have (thanks to government) is unsustainable which makes me believe something devious is afoot. Perhaps this is not actually about health care, is it possible the whole array of “rushed” bills portends to precipitate FAILURE? Thus it could be said “see capitalisim has failed comrade”…
The democrat party has used government to grow itself with the object of making as many dependents as possible. Which in turn GROWS GOVERNMENT!! This is about POWER not people.
From liberals: You have the right to half-assed, lousy healthcare that’ll probably kill you if you’re unhealthy enough to need it (unless they feel you’re not worth the effort), to have most of your income taken in taxes to pay for it and to be worse off overall that if we hand’t done anything! (Remember, it’s for your own good– it’ll make liberals feel good about themselves for once, which is worth more to them than your life.)
I love the health care I pay for. I don’t even mind helping people who cannot help themselves with health care. I do object to paying for people who are buying umpteen do-electronic-gadgets or another closet full of clothes with money they could use for health care. I am especially adament about not paying for the idiots in Washington D.C.s Cadillac health care, and you can bet they are not going to give that up. No no no!
Given the alternative, a right to health care sounds pretty sensible.
Peace.
DS
“They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights…”
Rights are not the freedom to do things. Rights are not what the State decides we should or shouldn’t have, and what others should or shouldn’t pay for. They’re not even what we decide we should or shouldn’t have.
People have rights because God created them with rights. God has given men community, conscience, wealth, intellect, and a free will.
The State doesn’t convey rights. It gets whatever power it has by the “consent of the governed.” Is is human beings created in the image of God who, as an act of corporate human dignity, organize themselves into governments so they can carry out a few national tasks like raising a military.
We have tossed out God’s intent for mankind, and are now “creating” human rights with no moral frame of reference whatsoever.
And we’re reaping what we’re sowing.
“Given the alternative, a right to health care sounds pretty sensible.”
why does it sound sensible?
You might just as easily say that a right to food sounds sensible, but we don’t have socialized grocery stores. If you mean that we should make some kind of health care available for those who can’t afford it, then there’s a case to be made. But middle class welfare across the board is an entirely different thing. It’s certainly true that we don’t want to live in a society where people suffer, but having a “right to health care” is not the same as a massive universal coverage system.