Why is it, that we do not all have the right to Free Health Care?

Question

We live in the " Power Belt" of the world called"" AMERICA""and no health ins for our people

Answer 1

Wouldn't it be nice if doctors and hospitals weren't so greedy and uncaring so that everyone could get health care? I mean, use to...as long as you could pay any amount on a regular basis, you could get the care you needed. What does this say about those who take an oath to care for the sick and injured?

Answer 2

There's no such thing as free health care - in the best scenario; the FDA would be abolished or restricted so that health care would become more affordable to all. The 70% of Americans who have insurance pay for the other 30 through inflated prices. Have you been to a country with FHC?

Answer 3

You think if they give you free health care, that its not going to cost you in other ways? How would the government pay for the health care? Taxes! How about handing over 40-50% of your salary to taxes each paycheck from now on without any deductions? Thats what is done in Europe. Nothing is free, they just tell you it is and you have to figure out how to pay in other ways. Doctors and Hospitals won't work for free and if they get paid by the government, then the government has got to get the money from somewhere.

Answer 4

Free how? Free to the people who do not get off the lazy backside and get a job to pay their healthcare bills while the people who work the butts off every day pay for it?

Free to the lazy, damned expensive to the rest of us!

Doctors and hospitals are not greedy - they are being backed into a corner by malpractice premiums, non-paying uninsured deadbeats who don't pay their bills, and governmental "insurance" that doesn't pay squat! The people delivering the care for the most part DO CARE but what are you supposed to do when so many resources are being wasted?

Answer 5

I think the real question is: why do Heath insurance companies get away with refusing to pay? Example: I spent a week in the hospital last month, and i find out this week that insurance refuses to pay a dime. We don't need free health care, just health care that does what it is supposed to do.

Answer 6

people abuse things when they are free. They demand a doctor give them antibiotics every time they and their little kids have the sniffles, and now we have super-germs that are immune to powerful drugs.
when you give poor people free food, they get fat.
when you give people free housing projects, they gut them out and pee in the elevators.
when you give people free money, they buy booze and crack rocks with it.
But the main reason why free health care is a bad idea, is that we don't want our government to decide who gets what treatment and when. A beauracracy is never a good thing, especially when 2000 smug people living in Washington D.C. need to sign a piece of paper before you can be "approved" for your heart surgery.
I also do NOT want my hard earned money paying for free abortions, or for the liver transplants of alcoholics or for drug treatment for heroine junkies.
The list against this is too enormous to be complete.

Answer 7

In countries with "free" health care, often people die while waiting for their health care (heart surgery, e.g.). The system is overused and so expensive that the government (taxpayer) simply can't afford to pay for it all.

With our current health trends of aging population and obesity, "free" health care would easily bankrupt the government. In fact, I'm not sure current entitlements won't bankrupt us anyway!

Where people get things free, they become irresponsible at using them. Look at welfare: whent he government started supporting unwed mothers--a compassionate thing in the long run; who wants children to go hungry?--unwed motherhood among Blacks, especially, skyrocketed. Now the vast majority of Black babies are born to single mothers, which virtually consigns them to poverty. Would it not have been more compassionate in the long run to not support them? (I do support limited welfare; sometimes people just need help. But long-term welfare for the able-bodied and -minded just creates dependency.

My husband was in the military, and we got our care free. Once when I suggested to the doctor that she give me the prescription, but I wouldn't fill it unless my child's strep test came back positive, she was shocked that I cared so much about the cost of the prescription, since it was free to me. BTW, the script was for basic penicillin and the drug would have cost $75. !!!!!!!

I think our insurance companies should pay less--it willdrive a trend toward losing weight, eating better, etc.

Answer 8

For the same reason we don't have a right to free laundry of our clothing or transportation to our work. Because it isn't "free." Someone has to supply it. If the supplier is compelled to supply it for "free," that's slavery. If the supplier has to get paid then someone has to pay him. In a free society, that would be the person who desires the service & is willing to pay whatever the provider charges. In a free society people can voluntarily combine to "insure" themselves against the need for expensive services (like a medical procedure) by paying insurance premiums. But if they are compelled to pay -- how does that differ from the form of slavery in which they are compelled to supply the service itself?

Answer 9

All Constitutional rights are individual rights that do not infringe upon other people.

A thing is not a right, if it requires the confiscation of other peoples' money to pay for it, or if it forces people to perform actions for that 'right'.

Basically, nobody has a "right" to take money from MY pocket for their medical benefits. Nobody has a "right" to force others to treat them or medicate them.

Rights do not entail taking from others.

And "free" health care is probably the most expensive and least effective health care of all. You see, they eventually run out of other peoples' money.

Answer 10

Wrong question. You should have the right for any care you can pay for. Why should you have the right to consume something and send the bill to me? (or taxpayers) If the government hadn't meddled in the first place, the care would not be so expensive!