http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/08/yes-virginia-insurance-companies-do.html
Friday, August 28, 2009
‘Yes, Virginia, the insurance companies do ration’
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MY RESPONSE
Two “minor” points.
FIRST!!!
“Health care” is not a “human right”!
Place a human alone in a forest. Where is their “human right” to health care?
If you assert that is a “right” then their is an obligation for some one to provide it. If I have a RIGHT to health care, then my neighbor is FORCED to provide it. If he’s a butcher, baker, or a candlestick maker, then my health care will not be so good!
OH, you’re just going to FORCE him to PAY for my healthcare. Just as I am going to be forced to PAY for his.
Don’t you see the moral hazard in that? Don’t you see the stupidity in that? Don’t you see the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of that?
Argh!
Please go back and revisit the whole history of John Locke and concept of negative rights.
SECOND!!!
No one want to see people treated like in a third world country. Sick and dying, covered in flies, in human misery.
BUT, (there is always a big butt), you have no right to compel “charity”. America is an unbelievably charitable country. You can not “force” it. When you make it a gooferment program, then you have “free loaders”. Part of our current problem is that people want something for nothing. In my childhood, there was charity care in hospitals. My relatives would pass the hat around the family rather than have a relative use “charity”. They were embarrassed to have their neighbors think that they didn’t love their family member enough to care for them. Freeloaders weren’t tolerated; down on your luck, you were given a hand up. That’s the essence of true charity.
Remember the great hospitals in America were created by the Churches and Fraternal Organizations. Only when the gooferment took over, did we create the mess we have now.
SUMMARY
(1) Health care is not a right.
(2) There will be true charity without the gooferment intrusion.
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Reinke Faces Life 
You have the RIGHT to talk to you’re blue in the face. You’ll definitely need the RIGHT to keep and bear arms. No one has the right ot prevnet you.
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Why do you need free speech if you are alone in the forest?
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By your formulation, “human rights” are at the pleasure of my fellow humans. So how are they “rights”? Inalienable human rights are with me in that forest. Free speech. RKBA! Etc etc.
If I could have kept what was stolen from me under the guise of “Social Security Insurance” then I wouldn’t need to pass the hat. ;-) One has to take one’s SSI to at least “steal” back some of what was stolen from us.
Be nice if we could be gooferment free!
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And watch your grammar.
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What are you talking about? Human Rights have nothing to do with being alone in the forest. A Human Right is one that governs how humans treat other humans. What you wanted to say was that healthcare is not a NATURAL right. On that front, you’re right. It’s not. But we don’t live alone in the woods. We live in a society. You should let the government know how you feel about social aid… you’d spare them the trouble of sending you a Social Security check when you’re old and can’t work anymore. Pass the hat around then.
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