Is health insurance a "right"?
- Thread starter Big Money
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“In the United States of America, health insurance isn’t a privilege, it is your right."
Barack Obama
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...ress-describe-health-insurance/#ixzz2cEvz3ezk
Of course doctors shouldn't have to treat people for free. Where do you americans get that kind of idea. But it's also probably true that doctors have to be reined in on their billing. If they aren't then the insurance companies keep raising their rates to make up for the doctors abusing the system.
A government run system takes care of that problem as it does in Canada where we have a higher rated health cre system which operates for roughly have the cost per capita.
So where is your argument because if you keep screaming, is not, is not, you lose.
You are the typical poor guy who's been conned in completely by the very wealthy to keep protecting their outrageous profits. And it's at your expense as well as your fellow Americans' expense.
Keep on screaming but don't expect to be believed when the benefits of Obamacare come home to roost.
From Zappa?
zappasguitar
Well-known member
Are you claiming that doctors don't treat people without payment when the situation dictates?
Yes, or no?
zappasguitar
Well-known member
Yes.
Got any evidence to support that assertion?
The govt is supposed to allow you to pursue happiness, not provide it.
No one has a 'right' to the services of another person. That is involuntary servitude and is not in the Constitution. I'm talking about the REAL Constitution, not the O'Bammy one.
zappasguitar
Well-known member
And I am talking about the Hippocratic oath which PREDATES your precious constitution.
If someone doesn't like the ideas behind the oath taken before becoming a Doctor, one doesn't have to become a Doctor in the first place.
zappasguitar
Well-known member
Yes.
5 years ago I was diagnosed with colon cancer.
Would have died without having the offending tumor removed.
The Hospital WOULDN'T EVEN ADMIT ME for the surgery I was scheduled for, without an upfront payment of $3,000.00.
Yet despite your anecdotal claims, you survived, somehow.
Now you hate doctors because you wanted them to cure you for free?
Too bad you didn't do a little research.
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/07/people_flock_to_university_cir.html
http://www.uclahealth.org/body.cfm?id=561&action=detail&ref=2011
Lots more if you look. Just sayin'.
Crashk
Unite or Die
Sue Lowden Stands by Chicken Health Care Barter Plan
"before we all started having health care, in the olden days our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor, they would say I'll paint your house."
maybe we all need to start raising chickens
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20003163-503544.html
or just go without and die if you can't pay.
"before we all started having health care, in the olden days our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor, they would say I'll paint your house."
maybe we all need to start raising chickens
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20003163-503544.html
or just go without and die if you can't pay.
Or maybe we should take each responsibility for our own healthcare, and provide safety nets for those that cannot.
SmarterthanYou
rebel
red herring. you were not dying. you were stable. a hospital, as a private business, is only obligated BY LAW to make sure you are stable.
He's not too stable now, is he?
If you believe in that oath so much, how could you possibly support abortion?
Good question.