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I personally believe that it's a right. All these other types of insurances are privileges because they are based on materialistic purposes, such as car insurance, or even home insurance. However, your health is something that shouldn't be profited from, and you shouldn't go broke if anything goes wrong. We aren't completely in control of our health, and if one thing goes wrong beyond our control, we shouldn't have to suffer the consequences from it.
It is my PERSONAL OPINION (caps for emphasis only) that health care is neither a right nor a privilege.
Your health care is YOUR PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. That means that you should make sure that you become and remain financially solvent in order to provide affordable health insurance for you and your immediate family.
Once you demand that your government provide you with health insurance, you have given up one of your basic freedoms of individual choice for your government will now control just how much health coverage that you will receive and not you.
The only rights we have guaranteed under the constitution are "Life", "Liberty", "And the pursuit of happiness" . . . And of course those included in the "Bill of Rights" – Please note that nowhere in the bill of rights or the constitution itself is the right to perfect health.
Our health is our individual responsibility as is our ability to afford health care.
It is NOT, nor should it ever be our governments responsibility.
Just my not-so-humble opinion. B)
Papadawg, you are a veteran, just like my father. You get special treatment. You seem to be healthy. Some people aren't as lucky. Some people have to deal with the insurance companies' crap every day because of it. Our health is in fact our responsibility, but the bill that comes with it, shouldn't be. We shouldn't go into debt just because our health took an unlucky turn.
A privilege. No question. If you are wondering why, I encourage you to watch this 5 minute video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOd42r7szQY
I agree with papadawg. It's your personal responsibility. However, I do think the insurance companies are a large part of our problem. People need to wake up and see that they are not helping us in any way- in fact, they are hurting us, badly!
They were helping us back before the government outlawed HMOs. Now they've been legislated into ineffectiveness.
1. I do not get any "special" treatment because I am a veteran. Neither does your father. We earned our affordable health care (which I pay for mine from my retirement pay) by going into harms way to defend your freedom.
FYI – if you believe a commodity is a right or even a privilege, then who will give you your free car? Cars are a commodity, just like health insurance.
I agree with papadawg. I don't think anybody should demand anything of the federal government except the duties and responsibilities that are explicitly spelled out in the U.S. Constitution.
There is nothing in the Bill of Rights that mentions freedom to expect the government provide to you a handout.
I, like papadawg, agree that health care is not, nor should it ever be, the responsibility of the government.
There are possibly a few insurance companies whose bottom line is more important than the health of their members but health insurance companies are not the biggest problem with health care in our country. The biggest problem I see if with regulation. Our government continually talks about providing competition but they do nothing about it. If people were allowed to purchase health care across state lines, then there would be some true competition. Aside from regulation one of the biggest solutions I think to fix our health care system is some comprehensive tort reform. I believe if these 2 main areas were resolved, health care costs in this country would go down considerably.