First in the nation, healthcare is now a human right in Oregon

[LordBrownTrout]

What a deal. Shoot up heroin and then go to the county medical center to get you some fresh needles when you run out.

 

[Votto]

The solution to that is to appropriately fund the VA, not hope they have enough money to pay for their procedures privately. And it's not as if we can't see that other first world countries can indeed provide Healthcare to all their citizens while producing better results, because we can. The life expectancy of Americans is comparable to third world nations. All the first world nations with universal Healthcare have healthier citizens who live longer and are far less likely to go bankrupt dealing with medical costs.

The government can't even properly fund the Post Office

About the only thing politicians in DC know how to fund is their own bank account

That they are experts at doing.

So why do you want to empower lying criminals to oversee your health care?

If Obama had been a CEO, promising us to keep our doctor and health coverage at a lower cost, and lied about it, he would have been sent to prison

But not a politician. No, he just gets reelected after such lies.

 

[dblack]

But the right to keep the money that you earned is not a human right in Oregon.

Yep. And if that right was guaranteed, more of us would be able to afford "access" to healthcare.

 

[dblack]

That question was too tough for you? What you little bitch, you need people to pay to work in order to pay for your safety via the police?

The police have a monopoly on violence, as does government. It's necessary for there to be consistent laws and law enforcement. We all have to play the same game by the same rules. With other services, like healthcare, or even the fire protection (not always a government service, btw), don't require that kind conformity, and in those cases people should remain free to go their own way.

We all agree the government should do things and that those things cost money, stop being a child.

The Constitution is supposed to be the documented agreement regarding which things government should do, and which things it should not do. Healthcare isn't one of things listed in the Constitution.

 

[whitehall]

Nobody ever said that health care wasn't a human right. The wording was rigged and now Oregonians are going to have to chip in their hard earned dollars to keep heroin addicts supplied with clean needles among other things.

 

[Flash]

Yep. And if that right was guaranteed, more of us would be able to afford "access" to healthcare.

Absolutely!

Make the productive people pay the bills of those too sorry to pay their own bills. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[notmyfault2020]

Another first.
This state has now fully become the leftist's utopia. We've decriminalized ALL illicit drugs, we damn near have made it nearly impossible to buy a gun with Measure 114 that these asswipes voted for, and now healthcare is a 'human right'.
Anytime you hear someone say "healthcare should be a human right", what they're really saying is, "someone else needs to pay for my healthcare".

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um... i agree for the most part

However, health care has always been a right. If an unemployed person went to ER and couldn't pay, he or she was still treated.

But that's not good enough for the communists among us..

 

[TNHarley]

Look at all of these cuck losers that want a corrupt inept govt to nationalize the healthcare industry.
These fuckers in washington cant even balance a budget but they want them to control our health?
This country is soooooooooooooooooooo fucked!

 

[dblack]

However, health care has always been a right. If an unemployed person went to ER and couldn't pay, he or she was still treated.

Not always. Reagan signed EMTALA, one of his biggest mistakes. Unfunded mandates are pretty much always bad policy and have negative consequences down the road.

 

[task0778]

However, health care has always been a right.

No, it hasn't. There are doctors and facilities that can turn you away if they do not receive federal funding. A right cannot be denied, which means health care is not a right, it is a service.

 

[Man of Ethics]

Another first.
This state has now fully become the leftist's utopia. We've decriminalized ALL illicit drugs, we damn near have made it nearly impossible to buy a gun with Measure 114 that these asswipes voted for, and now healthcare is a 'human right'.
Anytime you hear someone say "healthcare should be a human right", what they're really saying is, "someone else needs to pay for my healthcare".

Voters in Oregon pass health care measure​

By AP staff (AP)
PORTLAND, Ore. Nov. 14, 2022 9:01 p.m.
Oregon voters have narrowly passed a measure that decrees health care a human right.
Measure 111 makes Oregon the first state in the nation to change its constitution to explicitly declare affordable health care a fundamental right.

Voters in Oregon pass health care measure

Oregon voters have narrowly passed a measure that mandates the state recognize health care as a human right.

www.opb.org

GREAT!

Humans are G-d's Creation -- thus all humans have a Right to Life!

 

[Leo123]

Another first.
This state has now fully become the leftist's utopia. We've decriminalized ALL illicit drugs, we damn near have made it nearly impossible to buy a gun with Measure 114 that these asswipes voted for, and now healthcare is a 'human right'.
Anytime you hear someone say "healthcare should be a human right", what they're really saying is, "someone else needs to pay for my healthcare".

Voters in Oregon pass health care measure​

By AP staff (AP)
PORTLAND, Ore. Nov. 14, 2022 9:01 p.m.
Oregon voters have narrowly passed a measure that decrees health care a human right.
Measure 111 makes Oregon the first state in the nation to change its constitution to explicitly declare affordable health care a fundamental right.

Voters in Oregon pass health care measure

Oregon voters have narrowly passed a measure that mandates the state recognize health care as a human right.

www.opb.org

Funny, they never really define what 'health care' entails....From the OP's link...

"The amendment reads: “It is the obligation of the state to ensure that every resident of Oregon has access to cost-effective, clinically appropriate and affordable health care as a fundamental right.”

"It does not define “cost-effective, clinically appropriate and affordable,” nor does it say who would foot the bill."

 

[Polishprince]

Another first.
This state has now fully become the leftist's utopia. We've decriminalized ALL illicit drugs, we damn near have made it nearly impossible to buy a gun with Measure 114 that these asswipes voted for, and now healthcare is a 'human right'.
Anytime you hear someone say "healthcare should be a human right", what they're really saying is, "someone else needs to pay for my healthcare".

Voters in Oregon pass health care measure​

By AP staff (AP)
PORTLAND, Ore. Nov. 14, 2022 9:01 p.m.
Oregon voters have narrowly passed a measure that decrees health care a human right.
Measure 111 makes Oregon the first state in the nation to change its constitution to explicitly declare affordable health care a fundamental right.

Voters in Oregon pass health care measure

Oregon voters have narrowly passed a measure that mandates the state recognize health care as a human right.

www.opb.org

Certainly good news for cheapskates who prefer to stick the taxpayers of Oregon with their medical bills instead of paying for their own.

If I was a bum, I'd be heading on out to Portland, where the people can camp anywhere and shit on the sidewalk, as well as get fre medical care.

The constitution allows anyone to move to Oregon- at least anyone in America.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Funny, they never really define what 'health care' entails....From the OP's link...

"The amendment reads: “It is the obligation of the state to ensure that every resident of Oregon has access to cost-effective, clinically appropriate and affordable health care as a fundamental right.”

"It does not define “cost-effective, clinically appropriate and affordable,” nor does it say who would foot the bill."

It will be taxpayers who "foot the bill". That's the whole point.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

It's mind boggling what has happened in this state. You can shoot up heroin right in the streets

Heroin is a human right too

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Certainly good news for cheapskates who prefer to stick the taxpayers of Oregon with their medical bills instead of paying for their own.

If I was a bum, I'd be heading on out to Portland, where the people can camp anywhere and shit on the sidewalk, as well as get fre medical care.

The constitution allows anyone to move to Oregon- at least anyone in America.

If it's a "human right" then they can't deny "illegal immigrants" from other states. If you can't afford something, just head to Oregon.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Texas needs to start shipping loads of illegals to Oregon.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Texas needs to start shipping loads of illegals to Oregon.

Healthcare is a HUMAN RIGHT. We should all go there

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Healthcare is a HUMAN RIGHT. We should all go there

Start shipping the druggie off skid rows there.

 

[dblack]

Healthcare is a HUMAN RIGHT. We should all go there

I think you need to think this through. Calling something a HUMAN RIGHT doesn't mean you get everything you want. It means that government controls how much you get. A bit Orwellian in that sense, but that's how progs roll.