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All Americans do have the right to health care. Who is being denied this right ? No one is stopping any American from buying legal care. The poor already get free health care under the Medicaid program. I have the right to bear arms, yet this does not require the government to supply me with a gun and bullets. a right imposes no obligation on another individual. This would be slavery. My right to pursuit happiness does not impose any obligations on you.
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in america, the only basic human right is that politicans who have their hands in the pockets of wealthy insurance and health care giants can make lots of money off of this crisis at the expense of their poor constituents who will be duped into believing that their politician is voting in their best interest. the framers wanted basic human rights, but the compromised themselves by allowing slavery. now, ever since then, the rest of us, generation after generation, must pay for that compromise, much like we pay for adam and eve's original sin. i agree with you, health care ought to be a basic human right AND i believe that bottom feeder, blood suckers shouldn't keep profiting off of our health, life, and death.
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I disagree that it is a basic human right, unless you are willing to declare other material things like food, water and shelter as basic human rights. Now, asserting that providing all people with basic health care (just like we do with police protection, fire protection, etc.) is a moral obligation of a civilized society is something I can agree with. The reasons that the United States does not have universal health care are manifold, involving everything from tax laws to racism. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/21/AR2009082101778.html
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Some people have decided anything that can make a buck should make a buck no matter how basic it is to human life. Food, water, and give it time, air. In fact I believe there are plans to turn out atmosphere so unbreathable that you can no longer breath it without some sort of device that has to be bought and paid for on a monthly basis. You don't have the money to buy your oxygen generation filters.. oh well.. You die. We don't need you anymore. Give it 50 years or so. If you're 20 by the time you hit 70 you'll be buying your air.
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Health insurance is not a basic human right. Nor is it a right guaranteed by the US Constitution.
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As historians are aware, things are only "basic human rights" in the United States when they are politically feasible. There has simply been too much lobbying by insurance companies, too much misinformation spread by alarmist ninnies trying to create a name for themselves in "infotainment," and too much control of the public debate by those with a vested interest in the status quo.
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A basic human right? What the heck do you mean? The only basic human rights that I know of is life, liberty and the pursuit to happiness.
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I think every other major country that isn't third world thinks so. It is sad to think of people being denied healthcare and dying because of it in this country. It happens all the time. I have friends in Europe who cannot believe that we don't have healthcare for everyone. That is all they have ever known.
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You actually think it's my obligation to keep you healthy? I beg to differ.
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