ACCESS to Healthcare is anybodies right, agreed.
But having others pay for it "Should be a right"? How do you justify this?
Is it your right (or mine) to force somebody to pay for your needs, your wants? Please answer that ONE question.
Using your "logic"... Isn't food one of the most necessary things to sustain life? I'm out of milk and eggs, please pick up some at the store and deliver them to me...I'm hungry. Don't I have a
"right" not to be hungry? I DEMAND you fulfill my "right" not to be hungry!
I'll try to answer that ONE question. We, as a community, have the RIGHT to vote on what programs we will enact to better provide for "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
To that end, we have so far enacted: an army, a police force, a fire brigade, public libraries and public schools, public emergency care so that people are just dying on the streets, public food assistance programs for the same reasons and medicare so that our elderly-who do not work- will still receive health care, and VA hospitals so that our veterans have coverage after their service.
We did not agree to any of this, but our predecessors did. And like it or not, these social services are the mark of ANY and ALL enlightened, 1st world countries. And no doubt, there were citizens and statesman who fought the need of every one of those.
Now, if you claim that in your neighborhood you reject the state police and instead every household takes up arms for themselves, you might save on tax money, but the citizenry is NOT better off. You will be isolated from the rest of the advancements made in around the state in law enforcements. Your next likely step will be to hire a private company to keep security. But without the large purchasing power of the citizen's taxes, the cost for private security will always be higher.
This is the argument for health care. It is ONLY A DEBATE. You do NOT have to agree. But understand that some of our fellow citizens are getting the shaft for situations outside of their control. Insurance company greed knows NO BOUNDS! They will even let THEIR OWN PAYING customers die rather than curb the profit margins.
The enormous buying power of the citizen's taxes COULD be put to work here, and fairly...if we had honest representatives in government by: raising taxes to provide health care to those who are priced out by the greedy corporations, and giving a tax credit to those who choose not to participate in the program. Unfortunately, you will never hear that type of simple reasoning from congress. It amounts to raising the taxes of ONLY those who use a particular program. And the government wants to tax EVERYBODY.
My guess is, most of America would choose the lower cost government program. And the rest of you apparently rich motherfuckers would get your tax break at the end of the year and never see a change in service.
Or everyone could rail against progress. And maybe close some libraries too and instead give the money to Xe. God knows Gen. McCrystal has been slacking on killing brown people lately.
By the way, food and housing is a declared RIGHT of people in this nation. Those kinds of things are supposedly what makes this rich nation great. Yet here you are essentially stating you would rather have the hungry starve to death in this rich country. This is the thinking which will hold back a 1st rate nation from achieving peace and security, though we have achieved greatness. Take the next step, bro. Imagine a world of peace and security. You have to let go of selfishness and greed to make it happen.
