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Originally Posted by Muncle
Does everyone have a "right" to all health care? Do all have the "right" to the same or equal health care? Is there a situation when especially expensive health procedures should be more readily available to those who have more resources to pay for them? Should "elective" procedures be available only to those with financial resources? When the time comes to prioritize certain procedures like organ replacement, should the patient's past or lifestyle be a determining factor (long-time smoker, high-pressure job, bad eating habits, drug use, homosexual promiscuity) and who should make these decisions? What about age? Any other social considerations?
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I don't think that everyone should have the right to a free, universal health care. I think certain criteria should be met. I think you should be a U.S. citizen to get free U.S. health care. Would Canada treat me for free?
There should be some set of universal rules that people must comply with to have these privileges...shouldn't there? Man, I sure wouldn't want that job...Being a taxpayer might help to pay for some of the expenses...but how can you exclude non taxpayers? This is such a huge question...the system is so messed up...and for so long...it could be beyond fixing. A single aspirin costs 10 bucks in some hospitals! [Which is a good deal compared to what our Army spends on paper clips]
Shady lawyers sued the medical profession out of its soul. People that poison there bodies with cigarettes and alcohol, yet have no money or insurance have been sucking the taxpayers teat until it is bone dry. Just go to the county hospital...they have to take you...pay the bill? Yeah, right. And all of those illegal aliens...great...we are paying for them as well.
First, we need to find a way to lower the costs. If we cannot do that...how can we afford it? Then, you just about have to include EVERYBODY. Smokers and all. How can we discriminate about health care? We are to help the least amongst us...