While I don’t necessarily believe that government should pay for health care, I do believe it is their responsibility to undo the damage caused by Republican’s who not only allowed, but even encouraged huge corporations like UnitedHealth, Aetna, Cigna, and others to make health insurance big business.

The same government who we trust to protect us from terrorists and other “outside” threats, does nothing to protect us from our own domestic greed? It’s not right. When profiteering crosses the line between necessity and luxury, “necessity” becomes relative, and people lose their lives.

So while it may not be the government’s responsibility to provide healthcare, it is very much their responsibility to ensure we have access to it. It may cost money to fix things, like create a non-profit health insurance option, but the alternative is unacceptable. With 47 million Americans without health insurance (9 million kids), I would hope that we could all agree, it is time to pay the piper.

For the record, my family and I have health insurance. I only happen to believe that all for one and one for all is what makes a nation strong.

“We could have saved the world, but we were too damned cheap!”
~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

“The profit system follows the path of least resistance, and the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked. Makes it Serpentine. Capitalism is the devil’s wet dream”.
~Ani Difranco, Serpentine

Have a good day!

As for health care, I don’t agree that the right to health care is included in the preamble of the our Constitution.

Our Founding Fathers said we have a right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” You have a right to opportunites to feed, clothe and care for yourself. But you have no right to get food, shelter, clothes and health care simply because you were born an American. You have no right to force your neighbor to pay for it.

Health care for instance. If it is a right, who gives it to you? Government? Government doesn’t give rights, it exists only to protect the rights of the individual.

How does government pay health care if it is a right? By forcing your neighbor to pay higher taxes. So government infringes upon your neighbor’s right to his life, liberty and pursuit of happiness in order to pay for your health care. If you want health care, pay for it. It’s not the responsibility of your neighbor.

Good conversation Amanda. Thanks.

That’s why.

There is no “right” to wear jean jackets either; some things should just come down to common sense.

Why do you think health care is a right?

I am trying my hardest to understand what is happening here. If healthcare is not a right, what is it? If you consider it a privilege, what happens to the under-privileged?

So glad that I motivated you to join the dialogue.

As for your question, the Left is arrogant to dismiss the movement of those who oppose government-dictated healthcare. Although I give Senator Michael Bennet credit. At least, he understands that he may lose his job because he supports Obamacare. Healthcare is not a right.