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Posted: 11/14/2018 4:47:46 PM EDT
If there is a right to health care, then triage ought to be criminal, since the practice denies some people healthcare and delays it for others. We all know that a dream deferred is a dream denied. The existence of a right to health care would also mean that a pharmacist tramples on people's rights if he fails to order enough blood pressure pills to meet demand, and the only doctor in a one-horse town would violate people's rights if he moved away.
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 4:49:38 PM EDT
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I always ask them what right they have to another person's labor without compensation.
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 4:51:27 PM EDT
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It's really just as simple as the fact that it can't be a "right" if it requires someone else in order to exercise it. Healthcare, housing, food, education, internet, etc can't be "rights".
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Link Posted: 11/14/2018 4:53:39 PM EDT
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You have a right to take care of your health. You have a right not to eat poorly to not shoot pot needles in your pointy elbows. You have a right to pay an expert for their expertise at a rate that you and he agree to.

You don't have a right to use other peoples money to pay for your stuff.
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 4:56:07 PM EDT
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I think what most of those folks really mean is that health care should be an entitlement.

Not in the "I am personally entitled to the labor of others." sense but in the "You and I should both be legally entitled to health care as citizens of these United States." Kind of like how citizens of most developed countries are entitled to health care by way of their citizenship.

Right now, that legal entitlement does not exist in the US. A hell of a lot of people think that should change, and I think they will get what they want within the decade.
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That's always the direction I take too.
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 4:58:21 PM EDT
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Well to be fair.......no one is going to provide medical care for free. Medical professionals will be compensated......at tax payers expense.
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 4:59:02 PM EDT
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What is their answer when you ask them this?
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 4:59:45 PM EDT
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I think what most of those folks really mean is that health care should be an entitlement.

Not in the "I am personally entitled to the labor of others." sense but in the "You and I should both be legally entitled to health care as citizens of these United States." Kind of like how citizens of most developed countries are entitled to health care by way of their citizenship.

Right now, that legal entitlement does not exist in the US. A hell of a lot of people think that should change, and I think they will get what they want within the decade.
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Is health care a thing that naturally exists, or is it something that has to be provided? Can I go to the MRI machine tree and pick an MRI machine fruit off the tree? Can I go to the surgery tree and eat the fruit and know how to do surgery? No somebody has to go in the ground to get the material somebody has to build the factory that turn the materials into the machine somebody has to build a machine somebody has to know how to work the machines it's a service provided by the labor of others no matter what you call it.  So while you jerk yourself off to try to deny it, you're basically saying yeah you have a right a legal right to the labor and period of Life of another person.
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 5:00:40 PM EDT
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I always ask them what right they have to another person's labor without compensation.
Well to be fair.......no one is going to provide medical care for free. Medical professionals will be compensated......at tax payers expense.
Which leads to me asking them why they believe forcing me to pay for their stuff is okay.

I'm not the one receiving the service here, why am I on the hook for it? Are they going to start buying my groceries and gas, too?
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 5:01:19 PM EDT
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I think what most of those folks really mean is that health care should be an entitlement.

Not in the "I am personally entitled to the labor of others." sense but in the "You and I should both be legally entitled to health care as citizens of these United States." Kind of like how citizens of most developed countries are entitled to health care by way of their citizenship.

Right now, that legal entitlement does not exist in the US. A hell of a lot of people think that should change, and I think they will get what they want within the decade.
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I think you're right, but I would spin a little differently and more cynically. They mean "I can't force a doctor to work on me, and I can't force the rich guy at the end of the street to pay a doctor to work on me. Let's gather up a big gang and get both!"
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 5:01:48 PM EDT
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What is their answer when you ask them this?
"Well, it's not really like that, we already pay for a bunch of stuff with taxes anyway, so what's a little bit more?"
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 5:03:00 PM EDT
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I agree there is a right to healthcare. You have a right to all the healthcare you can afford.
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It's really just as simple as the fact that it can't be a "right" if it requires someone else in order to exercise it. Healthcare, housing, food, education, internet, etc can't be "rights".
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So you are saying . . . blowjobs are not a right.
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 5:05:09 PM EDT
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I’ll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours

Bob Dylan
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 5:05:58 PM EDT
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A right?  I think they are enumerated in the Constitution.  I must of missed that one, maybe I should read it again.

Fucking liberal retards.
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 5:06:04 PM EDT
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You have a right to access to healthcare.
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 5:07:21 PM EDT
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FPNI

Right to others labor = slavery. Plain and simple. Ask the tards if they advocate for slavery.
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 5:08:19 PM EDT
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A right?  I think they are enumerated in the Constitution.  I must of missed that one, maybe I should read it again.

Fucking liberal retards.
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Oooh, no don't go that way. Not even a little bit.

"Rights" are not spelled out on a piece of paper. They are inherent to you. That piece of paper is a restriction on how the government treats those rights.
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 5:09:19 PM EDT
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You have a right to the very best healthcare you can afford.
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 5:09:29 PM EDT
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I think what most of those folks really mean is that health care should be an entitlement.

Not in the "I am personally entitled to the labor of others." sense but in the "You and I should both be legally entitled to health care as citizens of these United States." Kind of like how citizens of most developed countries are entitled to health care by way of their citizenship.

Right now, that legal entitlement does not exist in the US. A hell of a lot of people think that should change, and I think they will get what they want within the decade.
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They are too stupid to understand what a right is.

And what does citizenship have to do with it? All needy people have a right to American healthcare. CA is going to lead the way by providing taxpayer funded healthcare to illegals.
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They are if you can provide for your own needs.
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 5:10:47 PM EDT
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And I'm sure they just stare blankly at you, with a look on their face like a dog that's just been shown a card trick.

(Tip o' the hat to Bill Hicks.)
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 5:12:18 PM EDT
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Happens when the left moves to different states
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 5:13:13 PM EDT
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Even if it was a right, that doesn't mean it's free. Unless radio, tv, newspapers and internet are required to give me a platform for free.  And where's my free guns?
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 5:17:35 PM EDT
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They are too stupid to understand what a right is.

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Negative Vs. Positive Rights. "The Social Contract", ect. All a bunch of Socialist gobbledygook used to justify State coercion towards ones selfish ends. Although it may be likely that they do not understand it, or are capable of articulating it, someone is and has. And then disingenuous politicians latch onto those things to garner votes from people who want said free shit.
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Negative Vs. Positive Rights. "The Social Contract", ect. All a bunch of Socialist gobbledygook used to justify State coercion towards ones selfish ends. Although it may be likely that they do not understand it, or are capable of articulating it, someone is and has. And then disingenuous politicians latch onto those things to garner votes from people who want said free shit.
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They are too stupid to understand what a right is.

And what does citizenship have to do with it? All needy people have a right to American healthcare. CA is going to lead the way by providing taxpayer funded healthcare to illegals.
Negative Vs. Positive Rights. "The Social Contract", ect. All a bunch of Socialist gobbledygook used to justify State coercion towards ones selfish ends. Although it may be likely that they do not understand it, or are capable of articulating it, someone is and has. And then disingenuous politicians latch onto those things to garner votes from people who want said free shit.
You can't win against Santa Claus.
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Which leads to me asking them why they believe forcing me to pay for their stuff is okay.

I'm not the one receiving the service here, why am I on the hook for it? Are they going to start buying my groceries and gas, too?
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Oh I’ve heard that too.......all “basic needs” will be provided by government funding.

Usually I just walk away laughing at that point.
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 5:18:50 PM EDT
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Is health care a thing that naturally exists, or is it something that has to be provided? Can I go to the MRI machine tree and pick an MRI machine fruit off the tree? Can I go to the surgery tree and eat the fruit and know how to do surgery? No somebody has to go in the ground to get the material somebody has to build the factory that turn the materials into the machine somebody has to build a machine somebody has to know how to work the machines it's a service provided by the labor of others no matter what you call it.  So while you jerk yourself off to try to deny it, you're basically saying yeah you have a right a legal right to the labor and period of Life of another person.
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I think what most of those folks really mean is that health care should be an entitlement.

Not in the "I am personally entitled to the labor of others." sense but in the "You and I should both be legally entitled to health care as citizens of these United States." Kind of like how citizens of most developed countries are entitled to health care by way of their citizenship.

Right now, that legal entitlement does not exist in the US. A hell of a lot of people think that should change, and I think they will get what they want within the decade.
Is health care a thing that naturally exists, or is it something that has to be provided? Can I go to the MRI machine tree and pick an MRI machine fruit off the tree? Can I go to the surgery tree and eat the fruit and know how to do surgery? No somebody has to go in the ground to get the material somebody has to build the factory that turn the materials into the machine somebody has to build a machine somebody has to know how to work the machines it's a service provided by the labor of others no matter what you call it.  So while you jerk yourself off to try to deny it, you're basically saying yeah you have a right a legal right to the labor and period of Life of another person.
One day in the future, you will probably be entitled to receive Social Security Retirement and Medicare benefits. Somebody has to administer those payments and provide those services. Are you not legally entitled to their labor? Would you not be pissed off if they decided not to provide what has been promised - what you are legally entitled to receive?
Access to health care is not a right in the same way that you or I have a right to free speech or self defense. I'm not arguing that and you know it.

The people that want health care as a "right" want health care to be provided by the government to all citizens just like any other legal entitlement.

What you or I think about it is inconsequential. Some kind of universal health care is coming, and you will take advantage of it just like everyone else.
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 5:20:10 PM EDT
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Lazy narcissistic asshats.

Get off your ass and earn your keep.
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I think you're right, but I would spin a little differently and more cynically. They mean "I can't force a doctor to work on me, and I can't force the rich guy at the end of the street to pay a doctor to work on me. Let's gather up a big gang and get both!"
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I think what most of those folks really mean is that health care should be an entitlement.

Not in the "I am personally entitled to the labor of others." sense but in the "You and I should both be legally entitled to health care as citizens of these United States." Kind of like how citizens of most developed countries are entitled to health care by way of their citizenship.

Right now, that legal entitlement does not exist in the US. A hell of a lot of people think that should change, and I think they will get what they want within the decade.
I think you're right, but I would spin a little differently and more cynically. They mean "I can't force a doctor to work on me, and I can't force the rich guy at the end of the street to pay a doctor to work on me. Let's gather up a big gang and get both!"
You could cynically say the same thing about the road crew that patched the pothole near your house.
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If such a right exists it is rationed by price. Or availability (determined by someone else).

Enjoy your "right".
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They are too stupid to understand what a right is.

And what does citizenship have to do with it? All needy people have a right to American healthcare. CA is going to lead the way by providing taxpayer funded healthcare to illegals.
Negative Vs. Positive Rights. "The Social Contract", ect. All a bunch of Socialist gobbledygook used to justify State coercion towards ones selfish ends. Although it may be likely that they do not understand it, or are capable of articulating it, someone is and has. And then disingenuous politicians latch onto those things to garner votes from people who want said free shit.
You can't win against Santa Claus.
Exactly.

Whether you like it or not, it's coming. Because you cannot win when the options are "free" and "literally anything else".

It's coming. And you will use it because 1) you won't have much choice and 2) it will be "free" for all practical purposes.

It might chap your ass but they will give you a cream for that too.
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Oh I’ve heard that too.......all “basic needs” will be provided by government funding.

Usually I just walk away laughing at that point.
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Which leads to me asking them why they believe forcing me to pay for their stuff is okay.

I'm not the one receiving the service here, why am I on the hook for it? Are they going to start buying my groceries and gas, too?
Oh I’ve heard that too.......all “basic needs” will be provided by government funding.

Usually I just walk away laughing at that point.
Another common answer is that other countries do it.

And of course I have to ask if they believe the US is "other countries" or if we have our own problems and advantages other countries don't.
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Exactly.

Whether you like it or not, it's coming. Because you cannot win when the options are "free" and "literally anything else".

It's coming. And you will use it because 1) you won't have much choice and 2) it will be "free" for all practical purposes.

It might chap your ass but they will give you a cream for that too.
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They are too stupid to understand what a right is.

And what does citizenship have to do with it? All needy people have a right to American healthcare. CA is going to lead the way by providing taxpayer funded healthcare to illegals.
Negative Vs. Positive Rights. "The Social Contract", ect. All a bunch of Socialist gobbledygook used to justify State coercion towards ones selfish ends. Although it may be likely that they do not understand it, or are capable of articulating it, someone is and has. And then disingenuous politicians latch onto those things to garner votes from people who want said free shit.
You can't win against Santa Claus.
Exactly.

Whether you like it or not, it's coming. Because you cannot win when the options are "free" and "literally anything else".

It's coming. And you will use it because 1) you won't have much choice and 2) it will be "free" for all practical purposes.

It might chap your ass but they will give you a cream for that too.
Yeah, I believe so. Barring balkanization.
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Even if there was, i shouldnt have to pay for it.

Do taxes pay for guns, 2ndA?

Do taxes pay for news for us to read?
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Compensation is irrelevant.  Besides, Liberals will always say that doctors will be paid with government money where the tax payer is forced into labor.
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Our system of government was not designed to support or survive a system of taxation & redistribution. We're so far removed from what the founders intended, it's really only a question of how long this zombie corpse can stagger along, and the greater it is burdened with such programs the faster it will decay.
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I’d be ok with just fixing the shit show we have for health care currently.
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What's wrong with it?
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Government interference
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De-evolution into a Marxist society is nearly complete
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Government interference
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They always come back with “society owes it to one another to pay for that labor.”
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How can there be a right to anything that requires somebody else's labor or money?
Link Posted: 11/14/2018 5:45:38 PM EDT
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Which leads to me asking them why they believe forcing me to pay for their stuff is okay.

I'm not the one receiving the service here, why am I on the hook for it? Are they going to start buying my groceries and gas, too?
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In response to that is they say that the money that you pay in taxes isn’t yours. It’s for the betterment of society.
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Look at Canada..its all free health care right? Its not...by the time I pay employment tax, HST, FST and other hidden taxes my tax home is like 40% or less.  So yes that free health care? Its paid for...
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I’d be ok with just fixing the shit show we have for health care currently.
What's wrong with it?
Where to even begin.

Over priced meds (tell me why $12 in materials for IV fluids costs thousands of dollars? Why four pills of aspirin costs hundreds?)
Over priced procedures (EKGs, I&Ds, etc are grossly overpriced and it’s not the doctors that are reaping the benefits )
Doctors doing shotgun testing and ordering unnecessary diagnostic testing (lawyers and patient satisfaction has made doctors gunshy to diagnose without a battery of unnecessary tests)
Lack of insurance company communication between patients and hospitals. (You could do everything right and schedule an outpatient procedure and still get billed out the ass because a hospital put an out of network provider in your care, without you knowing about it)
Patient satisfaction scores and readmits dinging hospitals for reimbursements. (Patient satisfaction does not lead to better patient outcomes and can force docs to prescribe unnecessary opioids or antibiotics as well as unnecessary testing. Not to mention poor patient compliance can lead to readmissons)

I could go on for pages, but fix those things and it’s a start. I’m ok with paying my own way, but some of the shit these guys get away with is criminal.
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