The Ends Justify The Means…

Monday, January 21st 2008
Healthcare Policy • Uninsured • Healthcare Costs

The old arguments for government guaranteed access to health care. Here’s my favorite point:

Also, the people who are so adamantly against throwing a couple bucks of their tax money into the pot to help out their fellow countrymen are really sad excuses for human beings. Really. Subhuman at best.

Certainly, but it ignores the entire point - being an asshole with one’s ‘property’ is a right while no such ‘right’ to health care can be defended with any sincerity.

I don’t agree with the choice not to aid your fellow human being, and it isn’t the choice I have/will make with my life, but it should remains that. A choice.

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1 Comment on “The Ends Justify The Means…”

feminizedwesternmale said:

Yep.
Take a good accounting: Healthcare will be the first “right” enumerated via the Federal organ that directly COSTS other citizens. This is the beginning of the end of the experiment that is America.

January 21st, 2008 at 10:37 pm

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