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Re:Healthy California Act: proposal to make findings about s... by ceejayoz on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @08:29PM (#13825932)
> Using force / aggression (aka the government forcing you to do something) is a violation of your most fundamental rights, and strips you of your agency and dignity as a human being.

So you assert, as if this were universally accepted.

I assert being bankrupted or killed for want of affordable, accessible healthcare is a violation of my most fundamental rights, and strips me of agency and dignity as a human being.

Re:Healthy California Act: proposal to make findings about s... by mindcrime on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @09:24PM (#13826352)
I assert being bankrupted

How is being bankrupted a violation of your rights? If anything, it would seem that it's the opposite, as it's your creditors who lose something that you had committed to repay them, no?

affordable, accessible healthcare

You have the right to purchase as much health-care as you can, based on some balance between what you want and can afford. But on what basis do you assert that the world owes you health-care? In the absence of any other system, would you say that it's OK to stick a gun in the face of a doctor and command her to treat you for free? Are you entitled to medical care to the point that your "right" trumps the rights of others to avoid coercive force?

Re:Healthy California Act: proposal to make findings about s... by ceejayoz on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @09:42PM (#13826457)
"Take on this massive debt or you'll die" isn't coercive force?

No, I wouldn't force a doctor to work for free at gunpoint. That's why even single-payer systems pay doctors to willingly work within national healthcare systems.

The rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have substantially more historical support here in the US than your asserted right not to be taxed for anything.