Reply #59: Health care is a right and not much different than the RKBA [View All]

[madville]

If you want/need a gun you go into a store, pick one out and pay for it.

If you want/need health care, you go to a hospital or doctor, decide on a treatment and pay for it.

How are the two different? The RKBA is alot more restrictive than your right to healthcare, for example you don't need a background check to get health care.

If health care is a right that the government should be providing for me then shouldn't the government be providing me a government firearm so I can exercise my RKBA if I choose or need to?

I don't like the use of "Right to Health Care" as a talking point. Everyone does have the right to health care if they can pay for it, just like the RKBA. So you already have a right to healthcare. What people don't have is a right to free health care, just like they don't have a right to exercise RKBA for free. In those ways they are similar.

I would like to see something happen to bitch slap the insurance companies, pharmaceutical industry and hospital corporations. They have made billions, if not trillions off of illness and suffering. They are way too expensive and greedy. I wish I knew the answer but I do know that there is no such thing as a free ride, we will have to pay for what we get in some way, shape or form.