National Healthcare
I was just listening to “Fox Business” when I heard their propaganda
Judge, Andrew Napolitano, state that health care was not a right because a
right was something inherent in being born, etc., and health care was something
one bought—interesting. How does that relate to the rights of private property,
or the right to buy a gun, or free speech, and so on? Rubbish! His statement is
as ludicrous as that of Rand Paul some time back when he equated the right to
healthcare with slavery; and, also, in the last few days that healthcare is not
a right. How strange are those who think in such deranged manners? Suicide is
illegal, against the law, but healthcare is not a right.
Let me tell you what a right is. A right is the right to
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I think—in fact, I know—that is
right out of our Declaration of Independence. I cannot imagine life without
healthcare; I cannot imagine real liberty without healthcare; and, in my
wildest imagination, I cannot view one being happy for very long without
healthcare. A happy, healthy, educated, and united people are the very essence
of a strong, successful, and prosperous nation.
What the hell is wrong with these people who are doing their
utmost to destroy our country by keeping us continually divided, stealing our
fair share of our productivity, income, and wealth, reducing our people to
eternal poverty and serfdom—ruling us through a Shadow Government by an Oligarchy
of the Corporatocracy and Power Elite?
James Madison, said to be the main framer of our
Constitution, was as much of a believer in democracy as anyone in that time; yet
he initiated the design of our system such that the power laid in the hands of
the wealthy, those who are the most responsible of men and would have the
public interest at heart. In my mind, I interpret that as he believed them to
be patriotic, honest, and would use their God given extraordinary intelligence
and abilities to serve all the people—not just their selfish interests as they
are presently doing.
I may have already said this in another place at a different
time, but please let me say it again. When our Constitution was written, a lot
of important things were left out—very important. Only men could vote. Women
weren’t allowed. Slaves were not people. They were property—property with no
more rights than a stone along the road to be bought, sold, kicked, beaten,
killed, etc., like dogs, and cats in an animal store. Civil rights, too, were
not covered. All of these have been covered since, but one more huge omission continues
to exist—social rights. In the 240 years of the existence of our nation, our
great need notwithstanding, we have failed to address this—albeit we have
managed to determine that corporations are people and have the right to buy
elections. And social needs? Well, thus far, our answer to those problems has
been the philosophy of Survival of the Fittest. Let the Devil take the
hindmost.
I say that Social Security is a right. Universal Single Payer
Healthcare, i.e. Medicare for all from the cradle to the grave, is a right. Jobs
for all with livable wages are a right. You must understand, however, one must
pay for them. Nothing is free. Neither are these. The key to these, as to
everything, including taxes, must be one’s ability to pay. We must amend our
Constitution accordingly.
In the meantime, this is Ronald Miller.
The innocent pays for the guilty. :-)
ReplyDeleteWith a right comes a responsibility and when one is forfeited so is the other.
Healthcare would be affordable if there weren't so many people whether due to ignorance, stupidity, recklessness... hurting themselves. The cost of healthcare would be almost nothing if people would stop hurting themselves with drugs, tobacco, alcohol, consumption of food that should not be labeled as such and put aside a couple of hours of their do nothing time to do a little bit of physical fitness.