Liberty MavenRon Paul Says Healthcare is a Good, Not a Right
July 21st, 2009 12:54 pm | by Mike Miller | Published in Big Government, Health Care, Individual Responsibility, Liberty, Politics, Ron Paul | 2 Responses
For far too long those with a liberal/progressive agenda have successfully turned the debate around so that more and more things have become every citizen’s “right” and they are therefore correct to feel entitled to them (and demand them from their government). The subject of health care insurance is a huge one. Ron Paul correctly points out in his weekly Texas Straight Talk column that there’s a big difference between rights and “goods” (despite the level of need):
Political philosopher Richard Weaver famously and correctly stated that ideas have consequences. Take for example ideas about rights versus goods. Natural law states that people have rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. A good is something you work for and earn. It might be a need, like food, but more “goods” seem to be becoming “rights” in our culture, and this has troubling consequences. It might seem harmless enough to decide that people have a right to things like education, employment, housing or healthcare. But if we look a little further into the consequences, we can see that the workings of the community and economy are thrown wildly off balance when people accept those ideas.
First of all, other people must pay for things like healthcare. Those people have bills to pay and families to support, just as you do. If there is a “right” to healthcare, you must force the providers of those goods, or others, to serve you.
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July 23rd, 2009 at 3:12 am (#)
A parable
One day a poor pregnant woman came to Ron Paul.
"Oh, wise one" cried the woman. "The baby in my belly has a congenital disease. I want to have an abortion"
Ron Paul gazed upon the poor woman and replied "No. Woman. The baby in your belly has a right to life. Even sick children should be allowed to live. Go and have your baby and forget about an abortion"
So the woman had her baby.
The baby was born gravely sick.
It needed a doctor and expensive medical care.
So the woman returned to Ron Paul.
"My baby is sick. But I have no health insurance. My child needs expensive medical care. But I am poor and cannot afford a doctor nor the medical care that will keep him alive."
Ron Paul placed his hands on the poor woman's head.
"Health care is not a right. It is a good." He reminded her . "If you knew you could never afford health insurance, you should never have had your baby."
The woman's child died after much suffering.
July 23rd, 2009 at 7:19 pm (#)
Norris Hall – What A Bunch Of Crap !!!
You had better start using logic and reason to parse complex issues; Emotions Make Terrible Decisions – Short Sighted Impulses.
When Your Health Becomes A Ward Of The State You Become A "Cost to Benefit" Liability.