So I have the right to healthcare, but food is a privilege?

Question

Is this the correct theory for the pro-universal healthcare crowd?

I bet you can go longer without health care than I can go without food.

Well, those who get food stamps also get medicaid. Maybe we should expand that program too, eh?

Answer 1

Hmm, I might actually support healthcare if I got free food from the government. Or would it be like most government services, and suck? Half frozen hot pockets for every meal with expired milk?

Answer 2

What we really need are strict government regulations controlling the prices those stores charge! I mean, just look at the adds in your Sunday paper. The store down the road is charging $1.99 for a pound of hamburger, while it's $2.99 in my neighborhood! What am I to do?

Oh right, I'll just go down the road, and my neighborhood grocer will lower his price when he realizes he's losing business. Seems strangely simple. I must be missing something. Maybe I should agitate for "grub insurance" at my work so they'll provide me with all the chow I can consume. Yeah, that's the ticket! Employer backed food insurance coupled with strict price controls! That'll do the job.

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Sweet Jesus, do some people not recognize sarcasm even when I pile it on with a trowel?

Answer 3

The idea that you have a right to health care is pretty basic. When your insurance company denies you coverage...due to pre-existing condition (life is a pre-existing condition of course...but I digress) or you develop a terminal illness...well you ought to by law have the right to health care regardless of whether or not your insurance company believes you should have it.

From my vantage point...that's what we are really talking about , when we say people have a right to health care.

Answer 4

either way it is something you must earn or have it given to you by others not the government.
a couple of years back i heard a report that i would own 30 grand for welfare i have yet to even consider using and there are families, going from generation to generation, that have lived just on welfare since it was created back in the 40's

Answer 5

Are we trying to appeal to street people?...sorry Work and pay for your food, and pay for your health care...
...believe me the Government has scr*wed up with our social security retirement, doesn't properly take care of our Soldiers, ...and this is the entity you want to give more money to squander?.....come on people wake up....just like in Katrina....nobody is coming to rescue you so get REAL!
...there is no such thing as chance....so be a prepared MIND!

Answer 6

Don't give the liberal socialists any ideas. They will say that health care costs will go down if all people are forced to eat the prescribed diet and we will all be forced to show up every day for our rations and anyone who eats any food that is not approved will be shot for his own good.

Answer 7

What the heck pdooma. Lets go broke giving freebies.

Answer 8

Yes, the hungry without the means to buy food should have access to our massive stores of SURPLUS food and grains (which our tax dollars are paying Big Agriculture to do, by the way). But you're comparing apples and oranges because most can afford to pay for food if they have a job--it doesn't cost a year's worth of income (or more) like a costly surgery typically can.

Answer 9

Is that all you're concerned about, money? Think about it. In the long run it costs the country LESS if everyone has PREVENTATIVE health care. Bush's comment that people can just go to the emergency room is one of the most inane remarks of his presidency, and that's saying a lot. Proper nutrition is part of good health.

Answer 10

I get it now.Maybe Hillabill will donate all her money to the poor.