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Originally Posted by GreyWolf
You may disagree on the words of healthcare being a "right" (call it a moral obligation or whatever), but that is the basic concept surrounding healthcare in most industrialized countries. Namely - "everyone" is entitled to medical treatment irrespective of "how nasty" they may be or what it may cost etc.
The US Constitution is an excellent document and obviously considered carefully by those who participated in drafting that document. The world has moved on in a few hundred years - and will continue to move forward. Agree that there is no specific provision in the US Constitution for healthcare - however that was never the guidelines for the rest of the industrialized world and, least most of them, do provide healthcare as a right - and not necessarily with any basic changes to their constitution.
It may be worth noting that any industrialized country would freely provide healthcare to any individual from the US should they need this while travelling. Call it a moral obligation or whatever - but the net result is back to that keyphrase "accessable healthcare".
BTW... Nothing on this planet is "flat out wrong" - there are millions of shades of grey  |
You are the one who came in stating health care is a fundamental right, not my fault that it's not. If calling it a shade of grey makes you feel better by all means but until there is an amendment in the Bill of Rights, granting free health care to all Americans, you're wrong.
It's a moral issue not a rights issue and the government has no place pushing morality on it's citizens, do they try? you bet but that doesn't make it right and being in this business you should be firmly against that.
As for your claim about how "The rest of the world is doing it", you must not be to familiar with Americans as we like to buck the trend and do things our own way, it's been like that since 1776