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originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Boadicea
You're wrong.
A "right", a true "right" is not something that is dependent on others.
Universal healthcare would require mandated participation in the form of taxes by those who pay taxes.
originally posted by: AnonyMason
a reply to: worldstarcountry
And those individuals born with congenital health issues?
What about the children diagnosed with leukemia at age two? Or the pregnant mother who can't afford the costs of health care despite working full time?
No... In many cases the choice to be healthy has nothing to do with reality of a situation. That black and white approach is never the case. We live in a world of mostly gray, even with health care.
The bill passed yesterday is going to cost people their lives through no actual CHOICE of their own. That's something the American public should not stand for.
originally posted by: worldstarcountry
Being a personal trained does mean person is healthy necessary. Many of them are also smokers (which can lead to heart attacks in life) and I have even seen a few fatties.
Your image of their health could very well be relative.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
Healthcare is not a right, but it sure as hell is an entitlement now.
originally posted by: Kali74
Further, every right, enumerated or unenumerated depends on our collective agreement that something is a right and that we agree to protect it by will or by law.
originally posted by: SaturnFX
originally posted by: DBCowboy
Healthcare is not a right, but it sure as hell is an entitlement now.
Entitlements can be a bitch, but in terms of food and healthcare in what is supposedly a 1st world "great' country, I am in agreement with.
healthy fed people = good workers and taxes.