Healthcare is a right.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders says that healthcare is a right.
Think about that for a minute? Think about what a right is. The First Amendment says that you have a right to free speech and to print your ideas and distribute them. It also says that you have the right to practice your religion. It doesn't however say anywhere in it that the government has to provide you with a platform to speak, it doesn't say that people have to listen to you and it certainly doesn't mean that the government has to build you a house of worship. The rights in the constitution are restrictions on government. They are not concessions made to the people by the government.
Nobody is required to be a doctor in the United States. They literally could all quit tomorrow morning. What would we do then? Would Bernie then demand that those who are licensed to practice medicine be conscripted into involuntary service like the military draft of yesteryear?
No Bernie, healthcare is a for-profit industry. Doctors wont work for free. Hospitals won't operate without the expectation of there being a little cash at the end of the year to invest in their healthcare group and maybe pay some bonuses. You don't have a right to demand someone else's labor. You're not entitled to it.
Think about that for a minute? Think about what a right is. The First Amendment says that you have a right to free speech and to print your ideas and distribute them. It also says that you have the right to practice your religion. It doesn't however say anywhere in it that the government has to provide you with a platform to speak, it doesn't say that people have to listen to you and it certainly doesn't mean that the government has to build you a house of worship. The rights in the constitution are restrictions on government. They are not concessions made to the people by the government.
Nobody is required to be a doctor in the United States. They literally could all quit tomorrow morning. What would we do then? Would Bernie then demand that those who are licensed to practice medicine be conscripted into involuntary service like the military draft of yesteryear?
No Bernie, healthcare is a for-profit industry. Doctors wont work for free. Hospitals won't operate without the expectation of there being a little cash at the end of the year to invest in their healthcare group and maybe pay some bonuses. You don't have a right to demand someone else's labor. You're not entitled to it.
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