Health care is not a human right. It is not my obligation to make sure that you survive.
We help other humans who are too weak to be helped. It's part of our primal human nature. When you say that it's not your obligation to make sure I survive, you are saying you want to try it the animal way. The way that failed.
Learn to make distinctions between what is common and what is general.
There is no such thing as natural freedom. We are born in a collective, we die in a collective and we are nothing without our collective. Humans and monkeys are group first, individual second, and have always been that way. That's why people form 'teams' and have a 'group of friends', have 'families'. It's all small groups which together form larger groups, and the overall aim of each group is to make itself survive, but at the very top, the overall aim is to make the entire human race survive.
Don't believe you are special. That you have 'natural freedoms'. That you have some inherent ingenuity. That's just sillyness.
What would you do with all your ingenuity if you were the only person on earth? Humans have this illusion of being individualistic, and that they work for themselves first. It's not true. People work for the entire society, because without other humans, nobody can survive, no matter how 'ingenious' he is.
Being a web developer does not make you intelligent. Insulting people who disagree with you shows stupidity.
You have a lot to learn, but it's only experience that can teach you that stuff.
Self-referential. I dig it.
You cannot have a right to goods and services that somebody else currently owns. Using the power of the state to acquire medical goods and services is not a basic necessity of being a human.
We've lived millions of years without the state caring for our daily health. We can live millions more without the state and we'll be just be fine.
For a constitutionally-trained lawyer to say that is to engage in demagoguery over substance. We have a problem with health care -- some free market principles do not work when you are dying. But cartoon solutions and slogans are not going to fix complex problems. Mark my words: we'll just end up more in debt, more frustrated, and more vulnerable to even more bullshit promises.
Support for social heathcare is to recongize that one day you may be in the same position. In fact, when you are a really old man, you WILL be in that position. You'll be on a pension and you'll have lots of illnesses. I pay 8% of my income so that this never has to be a worry.
Social healthcare may not be a fundamental human right, but it's a hell of a convenient thing!
Good point. E.g.: "Competition will cause insurance companies to drop price and increase service. Innovation will come to insurance and new and different types of policies will enter the market, making it even more competitive. Consumer behavior will cause people to shop for insurance and minimize costs while trying to increase coverage."
You may want to read Article 25.1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights before reconsidering that statement.
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
Current members of the UN Human Rights Council:
China Cuba Ghana Nigeria
That's it. It's not a global government. It has no representation from the masses, it has no balanced system of government, it has no executive to speak of.
It's done a great job of preventing WWIII. Let's leave it at that.
This nation was built on individual liberty and responsibility, not as a nanny state.