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Originally Posted by hevusa  I think the doctors would disagree if their trash stopped getting picked up all of the sudden. No, everyone is not as valuable but that doesn't mean that they should not have the basics covered for their hard work. Everyone should be able to earn a livable wage regardless of profession and everyone should have access to affordable medical care (This does not mean paying over $100 a month to an insurance company). Health care is an obvious human right.
They have longer vacations, shorter work weeks, more luxeries and more benefits than us (especially Scandinavia).
And there are SOOOOO many other benefits when basic human needs are provided like lower crime, higher literacy, etc. | A human right is any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law).
So tell me, what gives the government the right to tell me to who I will give my services to and at what wage I may receive. NONE. Health care is not a human right, for the simple fact that in order for someone to receive healthcare it must come from another person. The Constitution outlawed slavery, now you want to reimplement it for a whole class of workers.
You continue to say that everybody should be able to earn a livable wage, but is what that, and again who determines it??? Unfortunately we are a free society, which means that we each have the right to pursue happiness in whatever our endeavours. What gives the government the right to determine what I as an employer should pay an individual???
Consider this, if we eliminated the income tax and the payroll tax the worker would immediately see an increase of some 30% in their salaries.
Furthermore there is nothing wrong with paying $100 a month to an insurance company, people already do that so that they can have vehicles, why not for healthcare?? You pay what you get for, keep that in mind when you think about universal coverage.
Currently there are shortages in the medical field of nurses, doctors, radiology tech, and lab techs. Universal coverage will only create more, as more and more people leave the fields. In the end, everybody will have coverage, but will it be worth it.
dmk Conservatism, I repeat is not an ideology. It does not breed fanatics....But if you want men who seek, reasonably and prudently, to reconcile the best in wisdom of our ancestors with the change which is essential to a vigorous civil social existence, then you will do well to turn to conservative principles
-Russell Kirk- |