Socialized Medicine – Obamacare in America is approved, who needs the Constitution anyway?
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Socialized Medicine – Obamacare in America is approved, who needs the Constitution anyway?
So here we are, it’s March 23, 2010 and President Barack Obama has just signed the bill of “Obamacare” into law. (The actual specific name of the bill is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act and you can see exactly voted for it here – http://snortreport.com/health-care-reform-roll-call-voting-list-who-voted-yes-and-who-voted-no-for-obamas-patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act/ )
Anyway, I’ve been watching this argument go back and forth and it seems that Democrats have done an outstanding job of “divide and conquer”. They have used ad hominem attacks on anyone who is against “Health Care Reform” by attacking with emotional attacks.
The USA is being further and further divided. None of this would happen if Americans were educated on the Constitution and held their Congressional Leaders to that standard.
One of the key questions that Americans need to ask themselves is this, “IS Health Care a RIGHT?”
What do you think, “IS health care a right?” Please answer with definitive specific examples to justify your position….
Here at Chuckypita.com, the answer to that question is a definitive NO. Medical care is NOT a right. One has no more “RIGHT” to medical care as one has the “RIGHT” to stealing a medical syringe for a nauseating stomach pain.
Here is an excerpt from a speech by Ezra Taft Benson, former Secretary of Agriculture under the Eisenhower administration in 1968:
It is generally agreed that the most important single function of government is to secure the rights and freedoms of individual citizens. But, what are those right? And what is their source? Until these questions are answered there is little likelihood that we can correctly determine how government can best secure them. Thomas Paine, back in the days of the American Revolution, explained that:
“Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another… It is impossible t discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.” (P.P.N.S., p. 134)
The great Thomas Jefferson asked:
“Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath?” (Works 8:404; P.P.N.S., p.141)
Starting at the foundation of the pyramid, let us first consider the origin of those freedoms we have come to know are human rights. There are only two possible sources. Rights are either God-given as part of the Divine Plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. Reason, necessity, tradition and religious convictions all lead me to accept the divine origin of these rights. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corolla must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government. I, for one, shall never accept that premise. As the French political economist, Frederick Bastiat, phrased it so succinctly, “Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.” (The Law, p.6)
Ron Paul explains the key question this way:
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2010/03/19/jk.ron.paul.healthcare.cnn
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/53703.html
“But once you say you have a right to something, and the government is going to give it to you, you have to ask the next question – how is the government going to get it? They have to violate someone else’s right to get it. Government is supposed to be established in a free society to protect rights, not to divvy up the loot. This demonstrates a complete different understanding of what the rights our constitution establishes.”
The question arises again, “Is healthcare a RIGHT?” – Please explain your answer…
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