Tuesday, January 24, 2012

If health care "should be a right" what about food

If health care "should be a right" what about food ?
I realize neither is a right in the Declaration of Independence but food is much more a vital necessity than health care. Not just food but quality food just like the rich people buy at Trader Joes and Whole Foods. Cars and cell phones should be rights also. Actually we should just live here and make babies and have the federal government provide us with all of our necessities.
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1 :
Already got that covered, heard of food stamp program. You can get a free phone, but you can only call 911 with it. Cars are still considered luxury items like diamond ear rings.
2 :
Do you realize every industrial country in the world has some form of government sponsored health care. What are we third world? Let's join the 21st century eh?
3 :
I don't know what country you live in but food IS a right in America and that's why there the FNS provides food stamps. If you would like all people that have less money than you to dissapear then buy your own little island with all the tax money Bush let you save.
4 :
From the Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." I think it could be reasonably argued that food and health care would fall under "Life" as mentioned in the Declaration of Independence. And I would argue that the federal food stamp program and Medicaid back up that idea by providing food and health care to the poorest members of our society.
5 :
It is a right to an extent! If we didn't have a market that ran on unemployment perhaps we would not need it. I suppose your answer is to let everyone starve. All that is but you! Last time I looked us poor folk just gave you rich ones over $800 BILLION of OUR money. And what did you do? Take a $500,000.to Junket to California! I'd rather feed a poor person than give a rich one 1 single dime! We should have let all of you go under!
6 :
The main problem is not the lack of government funding in US healthcare but the high cost of it. It is basically 5 times more expensive than Australia (and presumably most other countries). That's a tremendous drain on people's finances and it has to be paid somehow, whether it be through taxes or people paying themselves the ultimate cost is the same. In the US if a person is born with a disease/problem that cost $1 million to cure and the parents can't afford it then the child dies but in other countries the government pays and the child lives. It isn't fair that doctors get super rich while everyone else suffers

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