Why is it, that we do not all have the right to Free Health Care?

TexasRose

Wouldn't it be nice if doctors and hospitals weren't so greedy and uncaring so that everyone could get health care? I mean, use to...as long as you could pay any amount on a regular basis, you could get the care you needed. What does this say about those who take an oath to care for the sick and injured?

patrickctrombly

That is because America was founded as the last bastion of INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, including the right NOT TO BE FORCED TO PAY OTHER PEOPLE'S BILLS, including their medical bills.

The real question is how is it that some people have so little shame and so little sense of personal responsibility that they think they are entitled to have other people pay their bills?

Chuckles D

There is no such thing a 'free'. What are you a kid? Mommy and Daddy pay for everything, but work their butt off for it. Now, who is going to work their butt off to pay for health care???

turboweegie

All Constitutional rights are individual rights that do not infringe upon other people.

A thing is not a right, if it requires the confiscation of other peoples' money to pay for it, or if it forces people to perform actions for that 'right'.

Basically, nobody has a "right" to take money from MY pocket for their medical benefits. Nobody has a "right" to force others to treat them or medicate them.

Rights do not entail taking from others.

And "free" health care is probably the most expensive and least effective health care of all. You see, they eventually run out of other peoples' money.

mnwomen

Who would pay for that free health care? As a responsible adult you should be taking care of yourself and not asking for something for nothing. I pay quite a bit for my own health insurance and dont want to pay for someone elses.

thunder2sys

You think if they give you free health care, that its not going to cost you in other ways? How would the government pay for the health care? Taxes! How about handing over 40-50% of your salary to taxes each paycheck from now on without any deductions? Thats what is done in Europe. Nothing is free, they just tell you it is and you have to figure out how to pay in other ways. Doctors and Hospitals won't work for free and if they get paid by the government, then the government has got to get the money from somewhere.

hasse_john

Wrong question. You should have the right for any care you can pay for. Why should you have the right to consume something and send the bill to me? (or taxpayers) If the government hadn't meddled in the first place, the care would not be so expensive!

Maryfrances

In countries with "free" health care, often people die while waiting for their health care (heart surgery, e.g.). The system is overused and so expensive that the government (taxpayer) simply can't afford to pay for it all.

With our current health trends of aging population and obesity, "free" health care would easily bankrupt the government. In fact, I'm not sure current entitlements won't bankrupt us anyway!

Where people get things free, they become irresponsible at using them. Look at welfare: whent he government started supporting unwed mothers--a compassionate thing in the long run; who wants children to go hungry?--unwed motherhood among Blacks, especially, skyrocketed. Now the vast majority of Black babies are born to single mothers, which virtually consigns them to poverty. Would it not have been more compassionate in the long run to not support them? (I do support limited welfare; sometimes people just need help. But long-term welfare for the able-bodied and -minded just creates dependency.

My husband was in the military, and we got our care free. Once when I suggested to the doctor that she give me the prescription, but I wouldn't fill it unless my child's strep test came back positive, she was shocked that I cared so much about the cost of the prescription, since it was free to me. BTW, the script was for basic penicillin and the drug would have cost $75. !!!!!!!

I think our insurance companies should pay less--it willdrive a trend toward losing weight, eating better, etc.

MLaw

For the same reason we don't have a right to free laundry of our clothing or transportation to our work. Because it isn't "free." Someone has to supply it. If the supplier is compelled to supply it for "free," that's slavery. If the supplier has to get paid then someone has to pay him. In a free society, that would be the person who desires the service & is willing to pay whatever the provider charges. In a free society people can voluntarily combine to "insure" themselves against the need for expensive services (like a medical procedure) by paying insurance premiums. But if they are compelled to pay -- how does that differ from the form of slavery in which they are compelled to supply the service itself?

Proud to be an AMERICAN

Because we are not animals in a zoo - we are free and responsible for ourselves.

We live in the "Power Belt" precisely BECAUSE we reward individual initiative, innovation, risk-taking, work and effort.

You want to see Government ran healthcare, visit a VA hospital. I would bet you rethink your situation if that was the care you would receive.

sethsdadiam

There's no such thing as free health care - in the best scenario; the FDA would be abolished or restricted so that health care would become more affordable to all. The 70% of Americans who have insurance pay for the other 30 through inflated prices. Have you been to a country with FHC?

pilotB

It is not a right, it is a privilege.

what you want for free does not concern me.

NOTHING IS FREE

Cylon Model 0005

I think the real question is: why do Heath insurance companies get away with refusing to pay? Example: I spent a week in the hospital last month, and i find out this week that insurance refuses to pay a dime. We don't need free health care, just health care that does what it is supposed to do.

Susie D

Free how? Free to the people who do not get off the lazy backside and get a job to pay their healthcare bills while the people who work the butts off every day pay for it?

Free to the lazy, damned expensive to the rest of us!

Doctors and hospitals are not greedy - they are being backed into a corner by malpractice premiums, non-paying uninsured deadbeats who don't pay their bills, and governmental "insurance" that doesn't pay squat! The people delivering the care for the most part DO CARE but what are you supposed to do when so many resources are being wasted?

Serious Business

because poor people should not have access to treatment, aparrently.

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