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I don't have medical insurance.Why do you feel health care is a privilege and not a right? If you are a person who has insurance are you privileged and deserve more access to the system versus someone who is equally in need but doesn't have the money?
I can't afford it, and my employer doesn't provide it.
I also don't feel I am entitled to health care insurance, or even health care paid for by someone else. It's not my right, anymore than it is anyone's.
The medical field must continue to attract America's best and brightest. To do this it MUST offer financial incentives. No sane person is going to commit to 12 years of education (and the corresponding expense) and residency to reap the salary and "benefits" of a public servant.
Chemists, Bio-Chemists, physicians, nurses, imaging techs and the people that design/develop imaging technology, pharmacology, equipment and research shouldn't be hampered by the limitations that universal health care MUST place on them.
Should there be a mechanism that provides health care for the country's truly indigent? Yes, I believe there should be. But there is. It is called medicare/medicaid, and currently it is being abused.
Do you really think that all those power chairs/diabetic supplies/catheters/incontinence supplies etc. that you see advertised are really free? They're not.
Do you or anyone believe that people should be treated indefinitely/repeatedly for afflictions caused by repeated stupidities like drug addiction, alcoholism, gang banging etc, on the public dole?
I don't.
The American citizen seems to have little perception of consequences these days, providing universal health care would exacerbate that, or reduce our quality of care to the lowest common denominator, or both.
The other option would be for the medical funders (the government) to implement a "cradle-to-grave" list of options for lifestyle, diet, work options, transportation options etc.
Hardly the freedom(s) and liberties the founders envisioned.
You do have a right to health-care, every bit as much as you have the right to a great income. You just have to work at it, and The Constitution guarantees you the opportunity to do just that.
But you aren't entitled to have me, or anyone other than your employer, pay for either the income or the health care.
There will always be people that are "more fortunate," and people that are "less fortunate." The idea of the utopian "level playing field" of life's outcome is PURE folly.
Espousing otherwise may get you votes, but that doesn't make it true.
For you or anyone else.