Right to Healthcare
From Who’s Right? by Neal Boortz:
Among the rights guaranteed (not “given” as Bill Clinton believes) to you in our Constitution are:
- Freedom of religion
- Freedom of speech
- The right to peaceably assemble.
- The right to petition the government
- The right to keep and bear arms
- The right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures
- Protection from double jeopardy
- Due process
- A speedy and public trial by jury
- The right to legal counsel when charged with a crime
With one exception, the right to representation in court and a trial by jury, these rights require nothing of any other citizen but that they recognize your rights and not interfere with them.
Your “right to health care” would require some other person to give up a portion of their life or their property to either treat you or to provide you with drugs or medical implements. The Constitution does not provide for another individual to be indentured to you in this manner.
Therefore, you have no “right” to health care.
Even in the case of representation in court, and a trial by jury, these rights only have to be provided by society if society charges you with a crime. Quite a different thing from indenturing other individuals to meet your basic, everyday needs.
Why has our society dwindled into such an entitlement mentality? Why is it the government’s job to provide? And why do some Christians support the idea of the government using the police power of the state to do the job they’re neglecting?
Definitely an opinion held by someone who has not had to deal with a quarter million dollars in medical bills for a sick child while earning minimum wage.
A “right”? Perhaps not. and if Christians were doing their jobs properly, would it be necessary that the government provide health care? Nope.
But as long as you’re dreaming, can I have a pony?
Thanks for dropping by.
I’m not dreaming about the church taking care of the poor and the sick. This was a reality until the government decided to step into charity and take a secular approach. The more the government stepped in to provide charity that did not (and could not) discriminate between those who were truly needy and those who were not, it encouraged an entitlement mentality and pushed people further into pauperism.
I’ve got a lot more to say about this, but it should really wait for another post. The point is, it’s not a dream. When free from government competition, private charity is more than able to handle those in need.
Why do we have this entitlement mentality?
…because we’re not a republic anymore. The founders knew that if the people can vote themselves power (or money) thy will do so, yet we continue to move toward a pure democracy and away from a republic.
Lots of folks don’t understand why we have the electoral college, for instance. To them it makes no sense that a candidate could lose the popular election but still win the presidency. But this was a safeguard put in place to ensure that the mob didn’t get too close to government decisions.
Individuals are capable of acting intelligently, but the masses will always be stupid.