Why Health care is NOT a RIGHT

Inmates of jails or prisons, are the only Americans guaranteed healthcare.

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I repeat and reiterate what I've posted previously on the boards;

Universal healthcare works very well in Australia.
As with everything and anything in this life, of course it has it's failings and room for improvement.
Overall though, as one who has worked in it and been a consumer of it, I believe in it.

In part of the article it stated:

In other words, those with the ability to provide health care are obliged to serve,

Well yes! Any healthcare provider/worker who ever loses sight of the fact they are there to serve, is in the wrong job.

Then there's this:

while those with a need for health care are entitled to make demands.

And the problem with this is??? .......

Then do you work for free?

I go to a doctor or a nurse and expect to be treated at no cost to me. Why should I pay for something that is a "right" ?

The assumption that "Healthcare is a Right" loses sight of the fact that "something cannot come from nothing". All those who provide a service are entitled to seek compensation for the service provided. Yes, I work to help others - but I also have to put food on my table and feed my family.

Next thing we know, "Food" is a right. "Housing" is a right. "Clothing" is a right. "Employment" is a right. "Education" is a right....

Yes, let us allow government to provide us will all of these (and more!) Government has done a bang up job so far - why limit it's beneficence and benevolence? After all, government doesn't have to take property from you and me to pay for all these things. All government projects and programs are cheap and efficient - why just look at the DMV or the military! The more any industry is regulated (education, health care), the cheaper and efficient they become as compared to those on the swindling 'free market' (cell phones, computers, consumer durables etc.)

To make 'XYZ' a 'Right' makes for great rhetoric but unsound economic policy.

- Roy

With respect Roy, I think you perhaps misunderstand how the universal healthcare system in my country operates.

No-one expects nor suggests anyone work for nothing. That is not what my post purported at all.

When I refer to healthcare workers not forgetting they are there to serve, I'm referring to how some in the health profession place themselves above those who seek their service, treat them disrespectfully and as inferior and forget that their job, as healthcare providers, is to serve. Anyone who fails to understand or forgets that nursing is a service as well as a profession and that nurses are 'in service', to their fellow man/woman is deluding themself.

The assumption that "Healthcare is a Right" loses sight of the fact that "something cannot come from nothing".

With universal healthcare, it doesn't come from nothing. In Australia, it's funded via the taxation system and it works quite well.