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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 12:51 AM
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41. No, it's a societal responsibility.
Any society sufficiently capable of providing health care to its members should do so, but that's not the same thing as a human right.
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  -do you think health care is a human right? anarch  Dec-07-09 10:43 PM   #0 
  - Here, I found this for you  earthboundmisfit   Dec-07-09 10:45 PM   #1 
  - In a word: yes.  StarfarerBill   Dec-07-09 10:46 PM   #2 
  - I don't know if I'd call it a human right...  TCJ70   Dec-07-09 10:46 PM   #3 
  - Yes. It is a right.  saltpoint   Dec-07-09 10:46 PM   #4 
  - I see it as an obligation of any modern society if it is to call itself  safeinOhio   Dec-07-09 10:49 PM   #5 
  - Inalienable right to life, liberty,....Since HC is needed for life, it's a right.  Democrats_win   Dec-07-09 10:49 PM   #6 
  - +1  rhett o rick   Dec-07-09 10:51 PM   #9 
  - +2  madokie   Dec-08-09 08:16 AM   #56 
  - ...and you can't have "HAPPINESS" if your sick.  Butch350   Dec-08-09 03:03 PM   #63 
  - The U.N. does  leftstreet   Dec-07-09 10:50 PM   #7 
  - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was in part written by Eleanor Roosevelt, btw  Spider Jerusalem   Dec-08-09 02:14 AM   #47 
  - Yea!  intheflow   Dec-08-09 04:16 PM   #64 
  - In a civilized society? yes.  demosincebirth   Dec-07-09 10:51 PM   #8 
  - Absolutely, and so does every other civilized country in the world.  BeHereNow   Dec-07-09 10:52 PM   #10 
  - Indeed. Civilized societies believe in the concept of BEING a society  Lorien   Dec-08-09 12:19 AM   #36 
  - health care  maglatinavi   Dec-07-09 10:52 PM   #11 
  - Careful...  derby378   Dec-07-09 10:53 PM   #12 
  - Water, food, shelter, healing  sandnsea   Dec-07-09 10:54 PM   #13 
  - Yes  earthboundmisfit   Dec-07-09 10:54 PM   #14 
  - rights  maglatinavi   Dec-07-09 10:58 PM   # 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Dec-07-09 10:58 PM   #15 
  - It's a right everywhere else. Americans are treated like dirt  sabrina 1   Dec-07-09 10:58 PM   #16 
  - Yes.  cliffordu   Dec-07-09 10:59 PM   #17 
  - It is in every other civilized country on the planet.  Raster   Dec-07-09 11:07 PM   #18 
  - Yes on two levels, as per Boehner's Constitution; aka Declaration of Independence  Uncle Joe   Dec-07-09 11:18 PM   #19 
  - yes  L0oniX   Dec-07-09 11:31 PM   #20 
  - The UN does. n/t  Odin2005   Dec-07-09 11:40 PM   #21 
  - Yes it is ....  gleaner   Dec-07-09 11:40 PM   #22 
  - Yes  diplomat5   Dec-07-09 11:43 PM   #23 
  - Absolutely! Just not in the U.S. of A. Inc., a Time-Warner Corporation. n/t  RufusTFirefly   Dec-07-09 11:43 PM   #24 
  - If rights exist, health care is a right. nt  ZombieHorde   Dec-07-09 11:47 PM   #25 
  - that's an interesting condition  anarch   Dec-07-09 11:51 PM   # 
     - "remind [Mark Antony] to keep his legions intact. - They make the law legal." - Caesar  phasma ex machina   Dec-08-09 12:39 AM   #39 
  - Yes!  donheld   Dec-07-09 11:47 PM   #26 
  - Governments should provide health care for their citizens  ecstatic   Dec-07-09 11:51 PM   #27 
  - Of course! It's elementary, my dear. nt  tblue   Dec-07-09 11:52 PM   #28 
  - Delete dupe.  tblue   Dec-07-09 11:52 PM   #29 
  - Yes.  roody   Dec-07-09 11:56 PM   #30 
  - No doubt. Yes!  onestepforward   Dec-07-09 11:56 PM   #31 
  - No it's not a right  notesdev   Dec-08-09 12:03 AM   #32 
  - Do you mean like the right to have a public defender paid for by the state?  Uncle Joe   Dec-08-09 12:12 AM   #34 
  - We appear to be talking about two separate things here.  Cessna Invesco Palin   Dec-08-09 01:04 AM   #43 
     - Yes we are speaking of two separate things, my post #19 expressed my belief as to the ideals which  Uncle Joe   Dec-08-09 01:39 AM   #45 
        - Just to clarify...  Cessna Invesco Palin   Dec-08-09 02:55 AM   #50 
           - A better term for what  Uncle Joe   Dec-08-09 01:57 PM   #60 
              - OK, it sounds like...  Cessna Invesco Palin   Dec-08-09 02:39 PM   #61 
                 - Likewise,  Uncle Joe   Dec-08-09 02:49 PM   #62 
  - Wow, I know a far Right wing whack job who says exactly the same thing  Lorien   Dec-08-09 12:17 AM   #35 
  - "serious discussion"  notesdev   Dec-08-09 12:24 AM   #37 
     - Do you call this serious?  Uncle Joe   Dec-08-09 12:27 AM   #38 
     - well I, for one, enjoy it when there is actual discussion in these forums  anarch   Dec-08-09 08:03 AM   #54 
  - +1  TCJ70   Dec-08-09 08:49 AM   #58 
  - I think humans have understood it as shared & basic since very early men & women...  bridgit   Dec-08-09 12:12 AM   #33 
  - in the documentary "black wave: the legacy of the exxon valdez"  niyad   Dec-08-09 12:48 AM   #40 
  - No, it's a societal responsibility.  Cessna Invesco Palin   Dec-08-09 12:51 AM   #41 
  - It's a right for our seniors, it should be for everyone.  AllenVanAllen   Dec-08-09 12:57 AM   #42 
  - Hell YES!!!  Libertas1776   Dec-08-09 01:12 AM   #44 
  - Of course it is.  Greyhound   Dec-08-09 01:54 AM   #46 
  - Duh? n/t  Joe the Liberal   Dec-08-09 02:35 AM   #48 
  - Doesn't our constitution say "promote the general welfare"?  aquart   Dec-08-09 02:53 AM   #49 
  - Yes.  LeftishBrit   Dec-08-09 03:04 AM   #51 
  - yes --- and I think money has corsrupted most of our medicine . . .  defendandprotect   Dec-08-09 03:22 AM   #52 
  - Yes, it is a human right! n/t  Daphne08   Dec-08-09 04:29 AM   #53 
  - Yes, health care is a right. nt  earth mom   Dec-08-09 08:14 AM   #55 
  - Yes. nt  LWolf   Dec-08-09 08:18 AM   #57 
  - Yes  ConnorMarc   Dec-08-09 08:50 AM   #59 
  - Nope  kctim   Dec-08-09 04:50 PM   #65 
  - If we want a civilized society, then yes.  FiveGoodMen   Dec-08-09 05:28 PM   #66 
  - Allow me to answer as clearly as I can. FUCK YES! knr nt  Union Yes   Dec-08-09 07:41 PM   #67 
  - I want to say yes  varelse   Dec-08-09 07:54 PM   #68 
  - Health care, higher education and housing should be rights  Ken Burch   Dec-08-09 07:56 PM   #69 
  - Given we no longer  Dyedinthewoolliberal   Dec-08-09 07:58 PM   #70 
  - No.  Tim01   Dec-08-09 08:02 PM   #71 
  - Absolutely.  neshanic still   Dec-08-09 08:14 PM   #72 
 

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