quote:Originally posted by SittinPurdy:quote:I won't buy your argument. No one is imposing "punishment" by not providing health care. If that argument is valid, then every person who is not healed by medical treatment, or the lack of it, has received the "death penalty".
Two totally different concepts and you are only using the word "punishment" for it's shock value. It does not apply here.
Sassy Kims,
What would you suggest that the solution be for a quadriplegic who has no family and cannot work? Leave him out on the streets and let him die? Without any sort of welfare system, that is exactly what would happen.
How about old people who are in poverty? Let them die of treatable geriatric illnesses because they are poor and can't afford healthcare? What do we do? Tell them "Sorry, but since you're poor, you wont get the treatment of the rich, so that diabetes is going to go untreated and shorten your lifespan considerably." Is that what we need to tell them?
How about a man born with a crooked arm? Do you expect him just to "will it" straight through mind control so that he can work?
And don't give me the argument of "charities will do it." With charities, there is no guarantee, as most of them are worse at allocating funds than even the government.
Sorry, Sassy, get with the times. There needs to be either very affordable (like under $50 a month) healthcare OR there needs to be a government funded system that covers everyone. If the Iraq war wouldn't have happened, those trillions could have gotten us most of the way to covering everyone for several years to come.
And it boils down to the Iraq war argument again. The funds spent on the Iraq war would not keep the US heath industry afloat for a month, and probably not for a week.
Think up some other what if... that one won't fly.
And, as the original post said. You have no "right" to health care.