Share of Americans skipping medical care due to money woes jumps significantly
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Re: Share of Americans skipping medical care due to money woes jumps significantly
#2Encouraging generic drugs eases the problem a little bit.
Right to health care should be in the constitution instead of right to own guns.
Re: Share of Americans skipping medical care due to money woes jumps significantly
#3Encouraging generic drugs eases the problem a little bit. Right to health care should be in the constitution instead of right to own guns.
Health care requires other people’s labor though. If you make that a right you risk needing to implement some kind of forced labor system (sure it can be obfuscated as much as you like).
Not taking guns doesn’t require anyone’s labor, so you don’t run into this hazard.
I’m not particularly pro gun, I just don’t think positive rights are practical from a design perspective.
Re: Share of Americans skipping medical care due to money woes jumps significantly
#4Encouraging generic drugs eases the problem a little bit. Right to health care should be in the constitution instead of right to own guns.
Health care requires other people’s labor though. If you make that a right you risk needing to implement some kind of forced labor system (sure it can be obfuscated as much as you like). Not taking guns doesn’t require anyone’s labor, so you don’t run into this hazard. I’m not particularly pro gun, I just don’t think positive rights are practical from a design perspective.
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Re: Share of Americans skipping medical care due to money woes jumps significantly
#5Encouraging generic drugs eases the problem a little bit. Right to health care should be in the constitution instead of right to own guns.
Health care requires other people’s labor though. If you make that a right you risk needing to implement some kind of forced labor system (sure it can be obfuscated as much as you like). Not taking guns doesn’t require anyone’s labor, so you don’t run into this hazard. I’m not particularly pro gun, I just don’t think positive rights are practical from a design perspective.
Welp. Guess we can't have taxpayer funded roads then cuz all the forced labor needed for free roads. Guess we also can't have a right to K-12 education.
Re: Share of Americans skipping medical care due to money woes jumps significantly
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Health care requires other people’s labor though. If you make that a right you risk needing to implement some kind of forced labor system (sure it can be obfuscated as much as you like). Not taking guns doesn’t require anyone’s labor, so you don’t run into this hazard. I’m not particularly pro gun, I just don’t think positive rights are practical from a design perspective.
Welp. Guess we can't have taxpayer funded roads then cuz all the forced labor needed for free roads. Guess we also can't have a right to K-12 education.
You are hopefully aware of the difference between a right granted to all citizens and a project funded by the government?
Re: Share of Americans skipping medical care due to money woes jumps significantly
#7I attended one year in a US medical school program, and am almost forty.
I do NOT have US health insurance, because it is unaffordable.
Zero dependents — if I had anybody to legally be responsible, I would be on a policy. Probably.
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Re: Share of Americans skipping medical care due to money woes jumps significantly
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Welp. Guess we can't have taxpayer funded roads then cuz all the forced labor needed for free roads. Guess we also can't have a right to K-12 education.
You are hopefully aware of the difference between a right granted to all citizens and a project funded by the government?
I am. But you dont make sense. All Americans have a right to K-12 education, it's funded by the government. How is that different from all Americans having a right to healthcare, being funded by the government? If someone doesn't wanna be in healthcare anymore they can still switch to whatever they want to. They're not forced labor any more than teachers are.
Perhaps you'd like to sign a petition to lower forced labor fed by high false-conviction rates in Louisiana? https://promiseofjustice.org/end-plantation-prisons
Re: Share of Americans skipping medical care due to money woes jumps significantly
#9Encouraging generic drugs eases the problem a little bit. Right to health care should be in the constitution instead of right to own guns.
Health care requires other people’s labor though. If you make that a right you risk needing to implement some kind of forced labor system (sure it can be obfuscated as much as you like). Not taking guns doesn’t require anyone’s labor, so you don’t run into this hazard. I’m not particularly pro gun, I just don’t think positive rights are practical from a design perspective.
I seriously don’t understand people whose ethics accept that some folks will just die because they don’t want to pay an extra few dollars in taxes. You grew up here, your success or failure depends on the health of our society in many ways, and our society is falling apart because opportunistic capitalists drain all of the productivity with very little gain for the average person since the 70s. I guess we can keep playing Wild West until our country falls apart from malignant cases of not caring about your fellow human.
Re: Share of Americans skipping medical care due to money woes jumps significantly
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are hopefully aware of the difference between a right granted to all citizens and a project funded by the government?
I am. But you dont make sense. All Americans have a right to K-12 education, it's funded by the government. How is that different from all Americans having a right to healthcare, being funded by the government? If someone doesn't wanna be in healthcare anymore they can still switch to whatever they want to. They're not forced labor any more than teachers are. Perhaps you'd like to sign a petition to lower forced labo…
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