Here’s a weird question…

complicatedshoes:

How do you make something like health care… which requires an actual person to provide the care… a right.  What if all the doctors decided today not to be doctors anymore?  You can’t force people to be doctors.  If every doctor in the country determined that this was a raw deal for them and they all moved to Fiji, this would be an unenforceable law, would it not?  

Sorry to introduce logic to this discussion.

Carry on.

One of the things I most resent about this whole health care debacle is how the concept of rights has been bastardized.

Source: complicatedshoes

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  1. shanshan reblogged this from birdwillbirdwont
  2. spiegelman said: re: “rights are not granted by government”: Government is the only entity that can grant a right to vote. For evidence refer to the past 250 years of American suffrage. Happy to think of several more examples to show how your argument is ridiculous.
  3. birdwillbirdwont reblogged this from seanscheidt
  4. iambal reblogged this from complicatedshoes
  5. complicatedshoes reblogged this from bigbrownbear and added:
    Sorry, Skippy. Education is not a right either. This is a prime example of what Randy called the bastardization of the...
  6. seanscheidt reblogged this from bigbrownbear and added:
    actually..education..roads..and all those...rights. They are luxuries we
  7. bigbrownbear reblogged this from seanscheidt and added:
    How is health care any different from schools? or the roads? or rednecks forbid the military? I find schools the most...
  8. savvymac reblogged this from randyhaddock and added:
    Can people not see the negatives or do they not care because they don’t see how it is their problem yet?
  9. matthewdipaolamd reblogged this from randyhaddock and added:
    Good point. I referenced this a little while back but it is worth repeating here. The article is well worth your time....
  10. jessarmentrout reblogged this from gaymerlibertarian and added:
    THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO TELL PEOPLE. Health care is a commodity, it must be produced, and while there is not...
  11. ringoworld reblogged this from randyhaddock and added:
    Guardando alla faccenda da qui, si nota la grande lontananza che separa noi da loro. Parlando di “rights” e “person” con...
  12. acrazymomslife reblogged this from complicatedshoes
  13. gaymerlibertarian reblogged this from complicatedshoes
  14. cellophanesoul reblogged this from randyhaddock and added:
    As Dwight says (from The Office), “In the wild, there is no health care.”
  15. thedailyfiona said: I think they truly believe it’s a right. It comes with the lack of personal responsibility and accountability for one’s place in society.
  16. randyhaddock reblogged this from complicatedshoes and added:
    things I most resent about...whole health care debacle is how the concept of rights has...
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