Health Care Is a Business, Not a Right

Re:Health Care Is a Business, Not a Right by az0xff on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @01:40PM (#12345665)

Despite any implementation problems, I don't believe that someone should have a worse chance of keeping their life in the face of disease just because they are not as wealthy. That alone means that society is considering some people's lives more important than others, which is not a society that I would like to live in.

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Re:Health Care Is a Business, Not a Right by deelowe on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @01:50PM (#12345760)

But life isn't fair. We didn't create this problem, it just is. What we can do is work on solutions. So what are those solutions? You can't bury your head in the sand and pretend that the worlds resources aren't finite.

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Re:Health Care Is a Business, Not a Right by trav4225 on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @02:03PM (#12345910)

This. This is the crux of the issue in discussions such as this. Of course we all want Utopia. Just because some of us have disagreements about how to get there doesn't mean that we're heartless bigots.

(I'm not implying anyone in particular here has said this, but this is often where these discussion end up).

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Re:Health Care Is a Business, Not a Right by wolfram74 on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @01:50PM (#12345758)

It's incredibly difficult to rectify free will with every person is equally valuable. The correlation of that is all behavior is equally virtuous, be it reading, getting high, or punting babies off bridges.

I would settle for a communally accepted floor we don't let people fall below.

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Re:Health Care Is a Business, Not a Right by ancap on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @01:46PM (#12345723)

>That alone means that society is considering some people's lives more important than others

No it doesn't. Healthcare does not happen through some fictitious consensus of "society". It happens through individuals interacting one with one another and forming a natural order. To claim that healthcare is a "right" ultimately means healthcare providers are slaves.

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Re:Health Care Is a Business, Not a Right by fsloth on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @01:57PM (#12345832)

"To claim that healthcare is a "right" ultimately means healthcare providers are slaves."

So teachers are slaves? As are judges? etc.

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Re:Health Care Is a Business, Not a Right by thatfrenchguy on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @01:51PM (#12345773)

The kind of slave that earn top 5% income you mean ?

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