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To those who believe healthcare should be a right in America do you apply that thinking also to food? If so should we have government provided universal groceries for all Americans? How would this happen?
That's always been the basis of my argument against UHC. There are three things that are required for human survival - food, clothing and shelter. Proponents of UHC argue that HC is something that everyone "needs". Well, it's not. It's certainly not needed more than one of the three things that is required for survival.
Why stop there? We should also have universal cars, since we all need to get to work. And universal gasoline, since we all need to fuel those cars. It's a RIGHT, dang it!
I think a lot of people in this forum who think people shouldn't have a right to much of anything, except perhaps the right to breathe as long as bills for the air don't come down from heaven, would be just fine and happy living under the rules of the jungle and always be in a fight for the survival of the fittest.
I think a lot of people in this forum who think people shouldn't have a right to much of anything, except perhaps the right to breathe as long as bills for the air don't come down from heaven, would be just fine and happy living under the rules of the jungle and always be in a fight for the survival of the fittest.
My problem is with people who think everything they *want* is a right, that they're somehow entitled to it. Just because I don't think health care is a right, doesn't mean I want people destitute and living on the streets. But the last I checked, Americans believed in self-determination. Are we going to have a planned, controlled society where all of our needs are taken care of at someone else's expense, and we're left with no choices but what the government says we can have? That's not a free society.
A few things that might not have occurred to small minds doing miimum analysis. Right now, the average family's food budget is only about a third of the health care budget. Food is small potatoes. Second, families have wide latitude in their choice of food and how much to consume and how much to pay for it. Health care carries no such options. An operation is an operation, it is not elective, the alternative is death, and there is no price shopping. Third, a wide spectrum of agencies including the govermnet has already set in place a plan in which food is distibuted free to every person who requires it. Fourth, a person who has selfishly committed himself to a personal greed-centered political position will stop at no absurdity to flail argumentative talking-points against those who disagree with him.
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