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No One Has a Right to Health Care
by Jacob G. Hornberger February 3, 2016
Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says that everyone has a right to health care. Unfortunately, none of his presidential opponents, Democrat or Republican, is going to challenge him on the point. They’re too scared that they’d lose votes by challenging a standard socialist shibboleth in America.
Sanders’ assertion only goes to show how American socialists (i.e., progressives) have warped and perverted the concept of rights within the minds of the American people. The fact is that no one has a right to health care any more than he has a right to a home, a car, food, spouse, or anything else.
The correct concept of rights was enunciated by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, the document that Americans ironically celebrate every Fourth of July. Jefferson observed that people have been endowed with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
So kick it all back to private insurance companies and you send tens of thousands back to the ER for perfunctory care. Guess who ends up getting that bill? Pay now or pay later. Preventing a health problem or catching it early is always less expensive to fixing it after it's too badly broken.
Let the insurance companies decide what your care and Rx will be, based on their bottom line and profit margins. The only way they profit is to deny claims and they try to do that at every turn. So doctors try to compensate by going overboard with uneeded tests and office visits. It's a vicious circle.
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