The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board thinks health care should be a basic right.
In America, buy cialis capsule rights are traditionally things you already have in a natural state that can’t or should not be taken away: life, case liberty, speech, freedom, self-defense.
But you don’t already HAVE healthcare: you purchase it from people who spent a very long time learning to become medical professionals.
You don’t have a right to other people’s time, talent, and expertise.
What the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is talking about is an entitlement not a right.
I’m willing to discuss the possibility of making universal health care an entitlement for every American.
Unlike the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, I’m not willing to abuse the meaning of the word “right” to try to lend the idea extra credibility.
May 20th, 2007
…from a mandate to a tax.
How magical.
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July 18th, 2010
After all, viagra sale it’s the compassionate and practical thing to do.
My problem is we can’t keep our borders closed now. What are we going to do when every sick person south of Texas can get unlimited and free healthcare just by crossing the Rio Grande?
September 10th, 2009
But, viagra sale check if the plan’s designers aren’t hoping that getting more people to sign non-resuscitation orders will save on end-end-of-life care…why is it in there?
August 10th, 2009
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) ensures the privacy of your personal health information.
HIPPAA is the reason why we have to stand away from the reception desk now when another patient is speaking to a nurse or even a receptionist.
Of course, cialis buy tadalafil if the Left ever manages to socialize healthcare, cialis sale treatment any bureaucrat with a keyboard will be able to find out what drugs you take, click what birth control you use, and whether or not you have a venereal disease.
So here’s the irony: the same people who don’t trust the government to fight terrorism using warrantless wiretaps would give that selfsame government access to the fact that you’re seeing a psychiatrist.
Crazy, ain’t it?
September 27th, 2007
I suppose it’s no surprise that a country that was started with the ringing phrase:
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, buy viagra nurse that all men are created equal, cialis sales patient that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, illness that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
…would be obsessed with the idea of “rights.”
Setting aside the legitimacy of the whole concept of “rights” (I think it’s an artificial construct, but that’s not the argument I want to make here, today), I am very concerned about the recent elevation of healthcare to a “right.”
This morning I heard a story on NPR where the commentator kept referrring to how Wal-Mart “offloaded” the medical expensives of their employees onto state governments.
Implicit in the report was the assumption that healthcare was the “right” of each of Wal-Mart’s employees and that Wal-Mart was reponsible for providing it.
Why is Wal-Mart responsible for paying for the healthcare of the people that work there?
Just because some company long ago decided to offer a health plan as a benefit?
Some employers pay for parking, does that make free parking an inalienable right?
Furthermore, why is healthcare the only “right” that requires someone else to pay for it for us?
I don’t expect someone else to pay for my pursuit of happiness.
I pay taxes, so that the government can “provide for the common defense” and thus secure my liberty.
I’m responsible for the running of my own life.
So why is healthcare the one “right” that my employer or the government is supposed provide me free of charge?
Thinking like this is dangerous because it leads us to believe there is such a thing as a free lunch. That someone else should pay the bill. That I’m entitled to things I haven’t earned.
If enough people believe these things, the entire society eventually collapses under the greedy expectations of the populace.
A similar law to the one that just passed in Maryland (and which inspired the NPR report) is under consideration here in Wisconsin.
I hope we’re farsighted enough to realize that the healthcare crisis in America won’t be solved by declaring healthcare a “right” and forcing third parties like Wal-Mart to pay for it.
By the way, I’m actually open to some type of public/private approach to solving the issues presented by healthcare in America. But writing laws aimed at forcing one particular employer to provide healthcare to its employees is not the way to go about it.
January 14th, 2006
In a story about Hillary Clinton’s proposed universal health plan, cialis sales malady a reporter wrote:
Clinton laid out her proposal, click with the centerpiece a so-called “individual mandate,” requiring everyone to have health insurance – just as most states require drivers to purchase auto insurance.
Yes, but when people refuse to buy car insurance (which they do) we don’t give it to them anyway.
September 17th, 2007