do you have a right to have access to the most expensive and sophisticated medical technologies even if you can't afford to pay. Should the government provide and protect that right?
2007-03-19 17:14:08 · 6 answers · asked by ? 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
As an person who has had to wait until my doctor thought he was going to have to crack my chest for bypass surgery I can tell you only how bad it feels to live in this great country and not be able to get the medical attention needed to sustain life. There are no simple solutions to this, but I hope someday we will see health care for all of the citizens in this great nation. I wonder how many people die each year that would live if they could afford to see a doctor and have just a regular physical each year.
2007-03-19 17:26:30 · answer #1 · answered by phylobri 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Constitutionally it is not a right. But it should be.
All citizens should have access to decent healthcare...Maybe not the most expensive and sophisticated medical technologies, but average at least.
What burns me is that people in prisons have access to better health care than the average American working family. Now that is just plain wrong. Not that I would deny prisoners medical care....but honest citizens should at least have just as good.
2007-03-19 17:33:46 · answer #2 · answered by Wyoming Rider 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wyomingr....does not know what he's talking about. Prison health care is shoddy to say the least, I know guards that work in the prison system and you best hope your never in their and need a doctor. They really don't care if you live or die.
Next, where I live you are never denied decent care in a hospital, even if you don't have insurance. I know this because I had a sister that was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She had no insurance and the hospital provided her with a specialist instantly. She told him she had no insurance. He looked her right n the eye, held her hand and said, "I don't let people die because they have no insurance."
The next day she was in surgery and acute care for several days, in the hospital for 2 months. This kind doctor never ever has sent her a bill. We have been told he usually, for this type of major surgery gets $20 to $30,000. He never charged her a dime. The hospital did, but made it bare bone minimum.
2007-03-19 18:17:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it is not. No where in the Constitution is there any provision for the Government to supply you with health care.
If government supplied health care was such a great deal, all those sick people in Canada wouldn't be coming here for treatment.
2007-03-19 17:22:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i think you shpuld but you dont have it
2007-03-19 17:33:09 · answer #5 · answered by Nora 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
HELL NO!!!!
2007-03-19 17:24:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋