Healthcare is a Right?

According to Conyers, “We need a real serious bill and, by the way, the fundamental question, ‘Is health care a constitutional right?’” he said. “I mean, do you have a right to health care in the American system of government or not? Well, we believe that people do and we’re introducing a constitutional amendment just to make it real clear so that you don’t have to infer or assume that that’s a given and all that.”

So eloquently put Mr. Conyers! This from the same guy that stated “What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?” So I guess it doesn’t matter what is in the bill. I’m a representative and I like the idea of nationalized healthcare so I vote for it… regardless of what it actually says.

Let’s be honest, healthcare is NOT a right! Healthcare is a privilege that is obtained by providing the healthcare providers with money (a good or service) in return. To claim that healthcare is a right is to say that those providing healthcare MUST provide the care in expectation of nothing in return.

Currently we have a system that allows those that cannot afford healthcare to utilize hospitals for life-saving care and it is bankrupting certain hospitals! Here in Atlanta there has been years of debate and struggle for funding of Atlanta’s Grady Hospital. The reason it doesn’t have money is all the looter/free-loaders that expect something for nothing.

According to WGRZ, “from January 2006 to May of this year, Rural Metro Ambulance picked [one man] up 603 times…costing taxpayers at least $118,158 … but as high as $360,000.” Another gem, “Medicaid fraud and abuse costs $60 billion each year nationwide.” Want to save healthcare money? Put an end to the abuse!!

If healthcare is a right, why not food, clothing, shelter, or transportation? Those evil homebuilders should just give houses to the homeless. They need shelter to live right? What if there is terrible weather and they are stuck under a bridge? That’s just not acceptable; they should be GIVEN the house!

It’s a slippery slope of “rights” to someone else’s time, energy, property, and talents.

I can only hope that this gets crushed, “and all that.”