Would you consider being, or are you already patriotic about improving the health of our nation’s citizens?
2007-08-09 08:07:51 · 18 answers · asked by Incognito 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
DANCER- How do you know? People who invoke our 'founders' are cop outs. Our Founders died a long time ago, it's our country now. I asked what YOU supported not what you thought they may or may not have.
2007-08-09 08:27:29 · update #1
Brian- interesting argument. do you make the same argument about other things you're 'forced' to pay for. you make it sound as though men in suits with guns show up at your houe with someone else's bill.
2007-08-09 08:30:11 · update #2
Holy Defender of The…- then what are they?
2007-08-09 08:31:41 · update #3
please, people answer the question. i don't need monologues about liberty and the healthcare system, and talk radio regurgitation. believe me I've heard them all before.
2007-08-09 08:35:48 · update #4
Abby W- you sure are missin somethin.
2007-08-09 08:37:05 · update #5
Abby W- you sure are missin somethin.
2007-08-09 08:37:47 · update #6
john b- I have a very lucrative career, thank you very much, and a very expensive health insurance policy.
2007-08-09 08:40:41 · update #7
Concerned- that number is for citizens already older than 18. FOR ALL our citizens are life expectency is something like 68, which is pathetic.
2007-08-09 08:43:34 · update #8
joshcrime- the "pursuit of happines" is in the Declaration of Independence. Which, although having a very high philosophic impact on our constitution, does not actually have any legal signifigance.
2007-08-09 08:46:16 · update #9
Of course health is a right. But people have to decide individually if they want to live a healthy lifestyle.
As far as health-care goes, I wouldn't call it a right but certainly should be available to all and in the US it is available for any who needs it.
It would be a violation of my rights to force me to pay for someone else's health-care involuntarily.
2007-08-09 08:13:27 · answer #1 · answered by Brian 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
last i heard about 46 million were without healthcare.
15 million illegals
8 million the very wealthy-they pay their own
12-13 million children under 18
10-11 adults.
i am all for the elderly, infirmed and children under 18.
all the ilegals and the capable adults. nopey.
and besides, if the illegal population were out of the mix, i would say healthcare would be much easier fixed. to socialize healthcare, taxes would run around 50%.
2007-08-09 09:02:14 · answer #2 · answered by BRYAN H 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A right? No. A privelege? No.
All the same, health care is important for any nation. Those that have poor health care are not advanced nations. And the US fails because too many can't get any coverage at all.
I will say that you could argue that it's IS a Constitutional right, since health care is necessary in maintaining the part about Life and the pursuit of happiness.
2007-08-09 08:12:49 · answer #3 · answered by joshcrime 3 · 6⤊ 2⤋
The ability to obtain medical care is a function of how a government views its citizens.
In many countries, health care is distributed on the basis of medical need which argues for the idea that it is a right.
In the United States, health care is distributed based on ability to pay which argues that it is a privilege.
When one compares the health of citizens of the United States with the rest of the world, according to the World Health Organization, the US ranks 36th.
If one objective of government is to improve the health of its citizens, then access to quality health care is a right. If an objective of government is to protect the bottom line of an immense "for profit" health care industry, then health care is a privilege.
2007-08-09 08:19:49 · answer #4 · answered by fredrick z 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
a better question. are all other developed countries wrong to assure their citizens of good health? is it a right is not an issue but isn't it the only right thing to do? isn't it good for any society to have an educated and healthy and therefor productive citizens. for only this reason we got to stop this greedy none sense current policy/ies! lets do the right thing for a change!
2007-08-09 09:31:06 · answer #5 · answered by macmanf4j 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'd say that 'health' - or, more familiarly, life - is a 'right' in the sense that individuals have a right not to be killed or injured by other individuals. That is, in the sense of a negative right.
Health /care/, OTOH, is not a right, but a service.
2007-08-09 09:35:50 · answer #6 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since our government and corporations (same thing) are polluting our air and water and causing cancer, asthma and such due to the placement of polluting industries I believe it is a right to have good health and the system should have to pay. The people finding themselves in such circumstances (and that is most of us) have every right not to have good health taken from us.
2007-08-09 09:21:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Neither,
your question is a prime example of a false dilemma 2 options are given but better answers are available.
2007-08-09 08:13:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Access to services required for good health is a right in any civilized society; any society that sees people as more than simple resources.
I guess we need to resolve the question of whether the U.S. qualifies as a civilized society. I believe that it will qualify.
We'll see.
2007-08-09 08:36:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
1.Improving the sick healthcare system is what I'm talkin' about!
2. Educating Americans on healthcare issues such as sex ed, nutrition, exercise, etc.
2007-08-09 08:13:22 · answer #10 · answered by Global warming ain't cool 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋