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If health care is a right, then your Doctor is a slave

November 30, 2009 By 1 Comment

Jacoby nails this one.

What ‘right’ to health care?

My right to free speech or to own property does not give me a claim on anyone else’s time or labor or resources. But if I have a “right’’ to health care, someone else must be compelled to provide or pay for that care. Compulsion comes in different forms – higher taxes, insurance mandates, health-care rationing, intrusive regulations – but the bottom line is the same: a right to health care would leave society less free.

You have a right to stop shooting each other, to shooting up, to eating less crap, and to eating less. You do not have a right to make everyone in America pay for your foibles, nor to make some doctor fix what you could have avoided.

YOU DON’T HAVE A RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE!!

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  • Stephen Spontak, MD

    How right!!! Doctors have been their own worst enemies. Our incessant “duty to care for the sick” has stabbed us over and over. The Gov. knows that, in almost all cases, we will “Do the right thing”. So why worry about paying doctors fairly? They will do the right thing anyway.

    It seems to many in Medicine that the only cure for this is to “Shrug” as was organized by John Gault. If that happens, people die. Not just get sick, but die.

    Too bad medicine has been inept at getting that message across.