Is heath care a right or privalege?

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Neither it is non-existent for too many people in this county.

The Congress, President, etc, are covered for life. Curious isn't it that the lawmakers take care of themselves!

Very small, private companies are exempt by law because health coverage is too expensive. Large companies like Walmart are allowed to thwart the law by offering their employees minimal coverage at high rates because they have a strong lobby in DC. Guess who picks up the deficit here. We, the taxpayers, do because the cost is passed onto the states to cover the underinsured Walmart employees.

Why don't we have a national health plan? GREED. Therefore, health care is not a right or a privilege unless you count the privileged (the rich) who have enough money to pay for their own health coverage.

Don't forget the health insurance executives who make large salaries and get obscene million dollar bonuses for cutting costs. In reality, that means that you are often denied coverage for tests or surgeries that could save your life.

My boss can afford expensive trips, a high-end car, a million dollar plus house, and a fancy office, but he has no health care for his staff. I have a college degree, too. The cost of coverage for my child and I is about half of my salary .

Health care coverage is becoming a dinosaur in the public and private sectors. Meantime, Congress sits on its lofty duff and wastes time arguing about partisan politics while millions of Americans get the shaft.

Maybe the government should stop the ill-spent aid to Iraq. That money could fund insurance coverage for all of our citizens.

By the way, the number one cause for bankruptcies in the U. S. is because of exorbitant medical bills due to illness or chronic disease.

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A privilege... we just all wish it was a right (including myself).

these days its like a privalege. It should definatly be a right. lets all just move to canada!! <3

it should be a right, not only in rich western countries but throughout the world.

We are often told that it is a right, but in fact, it is so clear that it is a privilege.

it should be a right

I think it should be a right because not everyone is born into wealth, i think that everyone should have a fair medical coverage and without it putting a huge dent in out paychecks!!!

It SHOULD be a right, but it's been turned into a privilege.

You know the whole "LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" thing..what is that without LIFE?

I think that if we are completely truthful about it, it is a privilege.
Why would anyone else be responsible for our health simply because we thought they should be? However, in this relatively rich American society, a basic level of health care for all is affordable, and should be funded to ensure that American citizens have the capacity to be productive, and advancing.

Anything that ever became a "right" was fought for. I think it is our duty to fight for our rights, and a privalege to benefit from them.

It is a commodity. It is not a right. The docs have their own bills to pay somebody has to pay them. If the sick person isn't paying for their own care somebody else has to. In my country of origin we have socialized medicine. It isn't free, there is a "co-pay", the care is good so long as you don't have a major illness so it is somewhat rationed. It is more or less like a mediocre HMO, not totally rotten but not great. For example I know a middle aged single male who received an organ transplant here in the US recently. In my country of origin he would have been put so far down the list (single, not responsible for a family etc...) he would not have received it. It is socialism, they judge how useful your are to society when judging whether to save your life. I used to think like that, not anymore.

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