Why is it that I keep hearing that healthcare is a right? Your choice to live a healthy lifestyle or not is a right. Healthcare itself is not. Healthcare at it's base is goods and services. Goods are surgical supplies, vaccines, and other pharmaceuticals. Services are provided by individuals or companies who provide the knowledge and skills necessary to perform those services. Your access to these goods and services is a civil right. But just because healthcare enhances the quality of life does not mean it's a right. You could be born in a barn today, and live a long full life without any "healthcare". Or, you could be born with a genetic flaw which would cause your death without modern medical intervention. At this point is where people claim "right to life".
I see the debate. Kids born into families without the ability to provide healthcare is tragic, but I also believe that these people weren't required to have a child. I'm pretty sure they knew medical care was expensive and that insurance is expensive. We don't feel bad for people who buy cars or houses they can't afford, so why should we feel bad about their choice to have a child they can't afford? It's pretty heartless to say it, but that's the truth of it. Just because it's not compassionate doesn't mean it's a right. Compassion doesn't define our rights, it defines our charity. If you can't afford a plumber or HVAC tech, you don't get those things for free. You could argue that clean water and sanitation is a right, or even electricity is a right using the same argument that "everyone needs it". Need doesn't make material things rights.
Sorry for the rant, but I overheard a discussion at work and it has my blood boiling and I needed to vent and I like my paycheck too much to give these two leeches what they deserve.
I see the debate. Kids born into families without the ability to provide healthcare is tragic, but I also believe that these people weren't required to have a child. I'm pretty sure they knew medical care was expensive and that insurance is expensive. We don't feel bad for people who buy cars or houses they can't afford, so why should we feel bad about their choice to have a child they can't afford? It's pretty heartless to say it, but that's the truth of it. Just because it's not compassionate doesn't mean it's a right. Compassion doesn't define our rights, it defines our charity. If you can't afford a plumber or HVAC tech, you don't get those things for free. You could argue that clean water and sanitation is a right, or even electricity is a right using the same argument that "everyone needs it". Need doesn't make material things rights.
Sorry for the rant, but I overheard a discussion at work and it has my blood boiling and I needed to vent and I like my paycheck too much to give these two leeches what they deserve.