Is There A Human Right To Healthcare?

by ~ The Rebel ~ Posted 2012/05/27 02:25:49

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The point of these articles is to discuss whether or not any individual can claim a “right” to healthcare and the answer is, no. This is determined by the true definition of the term “rights”. (See http://patriotupdate.com/articles/is-there-a-human-right-to-h...) The reader must realize that I was not making the argument that every person should not have access to health care or that every human is not worthy of healthcare. We all wish for such a world but that is a separate discussion from the concept being pushed by liberalism of a “right” to healthcare. In part II of this article we shall elaborate on a term that has become wrongly accepted in our culture by conservatives and liberals. That is the term, “human rights”.

Though “human rights” has become a common phrase in our national dialogue, even being used in speeches at one point by Ronald Reagan, the concept is meaningless. Of course all rights are human rights. We wouldn’t argue that our houseplants have rights and even as much as we love them (and despite PETA claims to the contrary) our dogs and cats don’t enjoy “rights”. The vacuous term “human rights” supposedly designates some bastardized combination of civil liberties and natural law.

Mike 2012/06/25 18:12:44

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The only Rights we have from Nature are our Unalienable Rights. All LIFE has Unalienable Rights! Once alive, there is freedom, to pursue survival; otherwise, you’re dead! Since we have life, these Rights came to fruition during the enlightenment era summarized by Jefferson's polished version of: "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." For humanity, happiness is some human emotion after an accomplished objective, as in, the pursuit of survival; for survival is a prerequisite to Happiness. One who finds this subject interesting, should read the book titled: “Scientific Proof of Our Unalienable Rights. A Road to Utopia,” by Michael T. Takac.

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Christy 2012/05/27 04:20:02

There should be. How can one exercise the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness otherwise?

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Boris D. 2012/05/27 04:08:28 (edited)

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Rights are what the government can't take away from you, not what they can give away to you for free.

That is why Obama calls the constitution a "charter of negative liberties" because it doesn't detail what the government "must" do for you.

And he claims to be a "constitutional law professor".

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I. Car Rus 2012/05/27 03:40:00

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No. I defer to Jefferson. We each and every one have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. IF a society, especially a wealthy industrialized nation can provide healthcare for all of its citizens all the better, but I do not believe it to a fundamental right.

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flaca BN-0 2012/05/27 03:02:34

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It depends which country you live in. Some peoples believe it's a right, and some don't.

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ACE 2012/05/27 02:58:21

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No

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☠ Live Free Or Die ☠ 2012/05/27 02:40:55

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NO!

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Simmering Frog 2012/05/27 02:37:57

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No. If there was, you could knock on the door of a Doctor's house and demand treatment because it simply "was your right!"

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~ The Rebel ~ 2012/05/27 02:27:50

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Natural law has been defined by Kirk (based on Cicero and Aquinas) as, “a loosely knit body of rules of action prescribed by an authority superior to the state. These rules variously (according to the several differing schools of natural-law and natural-rights speculation) are derived from divine commandment; from the nature of humankind; from abstract Reason; or from long experience of mankind in community.” Natural law is a viable and robust concept upon which nearly all Americans agree. The problems occur when we as a society allow our appropriately placed passion for natural rights and civil liberties to lend credence to the amorphous term, “human rights”.

http://patriotupdate.com/arti...

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