Is healthcare a right or a privilege?

Is healthcare a right or a privilege?

  • A right

    Votes: 9 81.8%

  • A privilege

    Votes: 2 18.2%
  • Total voters
    11
TBoneJack

TBoneJack

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schuylaar said:
if you read this article in its entirety, it answers your questions rather nicely and makes sense.

if you disagree with anything, lets discuss.

your friend,

schuylaar
xxoo:fire:

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0111-jones-ex-pat-american-20150111-story.html
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I read it Sky. And it was a good article. And BTW, xxoo to you too.

I agree that every man, woman, and child in the world deserves the same health care as US senators get...

But with our welfare, medicaid, medicare, Wall Street bailouts, Detroit bailouts, defense budget, litigation, and OSHA standards...

How can we truly afford it?
 
Padawanbater2

Padawanbater2

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TBoneJack said:
I read it Sky. And it was a good article. And BTW, xxoo to you too.

I agree that every man, woman, and child in the world deserves the same health care as US senators get...

But with our welfare, medicaid, medicare, Wall Street bailouts, Detroit bailouts, defense budget, litigation, and OSHA standards...

How can we truly afford it?
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The problem is not the cost, the problem is allocation. You give quality medical coverage to everyone, that's coming out of some other piece of the budget

Legalizing and regulating marijuana is the sensible thing to do by most measures, but the DEA and prison industrial complex will lose revenue so they lobby against it at the cost of millions of people's welfare, dignity and life

We live in a system perpetuated by greed, and many people don't see a problem with that
 
TBoneJack

TBoneJack

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Padawanbater2 said:
The problem is not the cost, the problem is allocation. You give quality medical coverage to everyone, that's coming out of some other piece of the budget

Legalizing and regulating marijuana is the sensible thing to do by most measures, but the DEA and prison industrial complex will lose revenue so they lobby against it at the cost of millions of people's welfare, dignity and life

We live in a system perpetuated by greed, and many people don't see a problem with that
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I do see greed in our society. I just ain't smart enough to know what to do about it.
 
Padawanbater2

Padawanbater2

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TBoneJack said:
I do see greed in our society. I just ain't smart enough to know what to do about it.
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Seeing it and believing it's good are two different positions though. Capitalism breeds greed, it's inherent in the system itself. I take more than I pay you. If it wasn't that way, capitalism wouldn't work. If people were paid what they're actually worth, everyone would work for themselves because there would be no benefit to working for someone who pays you less than you'd pay yourself. They take the risk of starting, building and running a company, and they should be rewarded for their effort, no argument from me there, but when it comes to paying a wage that ensures your workers won't require government assistance or you getting that 2nd yacht or that private jet.. that's where the problems arise..

Because of greed and people who perpetuate it, many people believe they're better than the have not's.. it's an idea that has existed for centuries under monarchy. The idea that you're better if you're worth more or you have more is a lie. Some of the most significant contributions to humanity have come from people born with nothing.. How much are we currently stifling because of greed? It's unmeasurable. There could be a hundred Einstein's scattered throughout the third world and we'll never know about them because their parents couldn't afford a basic education..

This is an economic and academic tragedy beyond measure..

..and it's all because some people have to have more than others to make themselves happy about their lives..
 
UncleBuck

UncleBuck

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TBoneJack said:
Now that's funny.
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of course you find it humorous to yell racial slurs at minorities.

"HEY WETBACK!"

"what did you say?"

"i didn't mean anything racist by it, wetback! stop being so touchy"

*drives off with confederate flag waving in the wind*
 
TBoneJack

TBoneJack

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UncleBuck said:
of course you find it humorous to yell racial slurs at minorities.

"HEY WETBACK!"

"what did you say?"

"i didn't mean anything racist by it, wetback! stop being so touchy"

*drives off with confederate flag waving in the wind*
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Stop being so touchy Buck. You sound mad today. Sleeping so late can do that to you. It's a Circadian Rythyms thing.

RIU Politics has so far been free of name-calling and post-baiting today. Then you have to wake up.
 
UncleBuck

UncleBuck

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TBoneJack said:
Stop being so touchy Buck. You sound mad today. Sleeping so late can do that to you. It's a Circadian Rythyms thing.

RIU Politics has so far been free of name-calling and post-baiting today. Then you have to wake up.
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like uncle benis, you too should consider suicide.
 
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