Friday, March 26, 2010

Do you think healthcare is a right or a privilege?

Having health care access is a right, but that does not necessarily include getting it for free. The access of health care in the United States is very high, cost is the only problem. I know this because if we have unlimited money, we can print however much money we wanted. There would be no health care "crisis" at all. Health care insurance is the right to have a happy healthy right. The problem with this whole debate is the focus on the cost. If insurance companies can get the costs lowered and then more people will be able to afford it. Regulating insurance providers do not lower the costs. It will merely transfer the costs somewhere but we will still be paying for it in some way. Insurance costs stem from the actual care costs and frequency of claims.
It is a right because people deserve to be insured and have health care that they can afford. It is just like Freedom of the press. In the Constitution where the Preamble is stated, it says that people have to be taken care of and have a well-fare for everyone in the nation states. This means that people have the right to have a healthy life; people should be insured just like in other countries. Other countries do not require people to pay for it, they have made it a national law that everyone needs and has a health insurance. I do not have the right to have the government or the taxpayers pay for it. If I pay for it, I have the right to have it.

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