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Originally Posted by A1337STI
Well Said bigrobwoot,
So i was hearing on the radio the health care bill says that starting in 2011 our medical benefits provided by our employers, so it could easily be counted as 3-6K more income. and the bush tax cuts are going to expire. double whammy !
what's next scott, maybe we have the right to public transportation? if i'm free not to work and be provided an education, housing, food, and health care, how am i supposed to get from my provided house to my provided health care and to the grocery store. and if my transportation is a car you need to provided me with car insurance too, and gas .. And really how can you expect me to drive with out Satalite radio ? so that could be next? ya this is gonna end well...
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There is no Jeffersonian constitutional right to education, to roads & highways, to clean air and water, air traffic control, police protection, fire departments, flood control, coast guard, national parks, museums, etc... yet the government provides all of these to everyone despite their ability (or willingness) to pay, even all those vast hordes of lazy goldbrickers who evidently are taking over our society according to what some people think. Should we privatize all these government-provided benefits and make sure only those who can pay for it get it? I think it is arguable that healthcare is more a fundamental "right" than most of the things I listed (if not all of them).
Since you are wont to quote my favorite Founding Father... "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men... are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Lack of healthcare causes the death of at least
45,000 Americans annually. The low-quality of our healthcare also kills another
200,000 annually. Our shitty healthcare also obviously limits many more people's liberty and any chance of real happiness.
So we as a society are willing to provide everybody with extra-constitutional niceties like paved roads and national parks, but we just look the other way as 10's or 100's of thousands are deprived of their "unalienable rights" by privatized insurance-company-run healthcare. And worse yet we do this while many other lesser industrialized nations have already solved this problem and do it equally as well for less cost to society despite covering 100% of the population. And to justify this we point out that are some lazy people who will take advantage of the system, and then we justify it more by assuming that those without don't deserve it because of some bullshit bootstrap metaphor. That's immoral, unethical, and just plain fucked up. And WTF is a bootstrap anyway?