In what Constitution? The Declaration of Independence states that we have the right to pursue happiness, and healthcare certainly falls into that category. But we have the right to pursue, not to have happiness (good health) handed to us. Why do we think we have the right to take money from a working man, against his will, for our own benefit? Robbery is never a right. Look up the word "tyranny" in the dictionary.
When the government uses the hard earned money of its citizens to provide "healthcare", the result is what we experienced as a foster family. Our foster children had their health needs "met" at government run healthcare clinics. There we were treated like underclass citizens (because for some reason it's OK to treat low income people that way) and given less than adequate attention and care. Why? Because the staff at those clinics knew they didn't have to provide anything worthwhile. These low income foster children, wards of the state, had no other healthcare choice. There wasn't any need to provide them with a reason to stay loyal to the government run clinic.
It's interesting to me that people want to take competition out of healthcare. When competition is taken out of anything, the result is an extremely poor product/service. What we really need is more competition in the healthcare industry, not less. We need healthcare providers to try their hardest to provide us with exceptional healthcare at a great price because otherwise we might take our money elsewhere.
As an alternative healthcare practitioner, I realize first hand every day what happens when the government takes over healthcare. People die of cancer because it's illegal to try alternative medicine. True cures are destroyed or hidden so that the big drug companies (in cahoots with the government) don't lose money. Dangerous drugs are put on the market only to be taken off a few years later after they've already claimed many lives.
If you want the "right" to healthcare, you want the government to stay out of it. People should be able to study for themselves and/or consult with the practitioner of their choice to come up with healthcare programs, at a good price, that benefit them personally. Blind trust should not be placed in any one healthcare organization that has a monopoly on the industry. Healthcare is not, and should never be considered, a "one size fits all" service. It is not the government's job to hand us (low quality, dangerous, impersonal) healthcare. It is our right to demand something much better when it comes to the health of ourselves and our families.
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Hello Miranda Rat,
I really liked your put. It was well done. I thought you hit it right on the money when you pointed out that the right to pursue happiness is not the equivalent of the right to have happiness. Rights are not guarantees. Quoting a present-day American philosopher:
"The right to life is the right to a process of self-preservation; it does not mean that other people must give a person food when he is hungry, medicine when he is sick, or a job when he is unemployed.... The right to property does not mean the right to be given property by the government. The right to the pursuit of happiness is precisely that: pursuit is not necessarily attainment. Otherwise, one could claim that his fellows, by withholding their favors, are destroying his happiness and thereby infringing his rights."
Keep doing what you're doing.
Erratum:
My first sentence was supposed to say "post" -- as in, "I really liked your post. It was well put."
Sloppy, sloppy. I apologize.
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