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Health care, right or luxury?

In all the health care debates someone always says Health care should be a RIGHT not a luxury. The way I see it every American the right to healthcare just like you have the right to free speech, the right to own a gun or any other right you can think of. Can anyone explain to me how we don't have a right to health care?


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Rion..there has never been a Federal program that encompasses accessible healthcare from birth to death. Other countries have this, Japan's for instance is done on a sliding scale depending on how much money you earn. I lived under it for three years and did not find long waits for appointments, problems with referrals etc. Here, though, doctors live in fear of lawsuits, driving their costs skyward. There needs to be a clamp down on really stupid lawsuits..ie: a woman dies, age 101, her family sues just because they can...the doctor, the hospital - whoever.  This greed thing we have going in this country has to stop one way or another.  This is one of the reasons that any passage of "any" change to healthcare has such a hard road to go....
Posted 2009-09-10T18:16:47Z
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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

I agree with what Sandi said. There are far too many lawyers and not enough doctors. 
Posted 2009-09-13T06:13:33Z
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Courteous, yet lively debate, keeps the cobwebs from forming and misinformation as well.

Tort reform solely based on reducing the victims restitution is not the solution.  The problem lies with the greedy attorneys who charge outrageous fees to present outrageous claims, which do not always produce monetary gain but cost the system.

Limit the fee's and you limit the fraud.  Simple. 
Posted 2009-09-13T20:22:56Z
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There is nothing in The Bill of Rights OR The Constitution that gives either YOU, me or anyone else in the U.S. the "right" to Health Care.  If you want it, WORK for it.  If you cannot afford it, you're DOOMED.  Why should I or anyone else with a job need to pay for someone who either doesn't work or cannot work or can't find a job?  Although we seem to be getting closer, we aren't a "Nanny Country" yet.   This question must have been posed by someone too young to think of where the future is pulling us.  I hear a lot of stuff like this from college kids who haven't lived long enough to sort through the nonsense jammed at them by college profs who lean so far to the left they should be falling over.       Been there.   Wake UP.
Posted 2009-09-15T02:58:14Z
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