Is health care a basic human right?

lbeam

lbeam

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The other day I was thinking about how most countries in Europe provide healthcare for their citizens, ample time off for new mothers, etc. It's hard to believe the United States ever doing this, but I think it's wrong not to take care of the health of your citizens.

What say you?
 
I think exactly the same as you. I don't understand how in a country as advanced as in the United States there is no such free social coverage. I live in Argentina, a country where there are still many things better, but the primary health system is one of our pride. It caters to everyone at no cost and with quality service. I know that the same happens in other countries of the world, both in Latin America and Europe. I hope that situation improves soon, and the health system becomes accessible to everyone. :)
 
I think health care is one thing that should be excluded from the capitalist system because a person's life is too important to allow greedy corporations to put a price tag on it. Our current system makes people indentured to the state or their insurance companies because of debt.

If universal free healthcare didn't work in any other country, I'd never consider it, but it does so why can't we have the same thing? Oh that's right, because certain corporations don't want to stop making money. Apparently their revenue matters more than our lives and well-being. What a bunch of screwed up priorities our country has.
 
Having grown up in the UK, where there has been a free health care system since 1948, I have never known anything different. If the UK could manage to set up a free at the point of delivery health service in the aftermath of World War II, then I would think any country could do it. I certainly think everyone should have access to at least a basic level of free health care.

In these days, with so many people unable to afford comprehensive health insurance, I feel all governments should work towards a system that would favour its residents rather than the insurance companies.
 
You're lucky, Sandra. Where I live, many people just don't go to the doctor or to hospitals. Even if they break a bone or something, they'd rather try to deal with it themselves than take a second mortgage on their home just to pay for the medical bills. I hope that the new healthcare system that the Obama administration is implementing will help end the suffering our warped healthcare inflicts on us all.
 
I agree completely. Health care SHOULD be a basic human right!! Basic healthcare, food and shelter should be available to people without question. That's one thing as an American that I'm very embarrassed and frankly angry about...we're so far behind a lot of other countries on this.
 
It should be. I think it's ridiculous that people have to pay for health care. The exorbitant amounts that are charged for a basic trip to the emergency room are outlandish. People get into debt with this. I myself have gone into health care debt and it makes me feel like crap when the bill collectors start trying to shake me down for money I don't even have!
 
Health care is a basic human right. It's murder not to have it. If you are 'pro life', then the same life desire you hold for a fetus you must hold for all human life. No Universal Healthcare means we commit murder. Premeditated murder. We are killing people. To watch them die, is the same as murdering them. Plain and simple. thousands die in this country because of this. I want it stopped. I want healthcare for everyone. Screw political philosophy's. Political philosophy's are not living things, so should not be honored as such, they are ideas, and as history has shown us, some political ideas are as screwy as hell.
 
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