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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
No room for discussion? Fair enough. We'll discuss is amongst ourselves then.
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If you'd look just one post above that one, you'll notice that roachboy was the one to start that nonsense.
Health care is pretty clearly not a right - it requires an investment of time, money, and knowledge on the part of someone else. Given an inability/unwillingness to pay, it requires unpaid labor. Rights don't enslave, not even those who can afford a couple instances of slavery a month.
But this hardly settles the issue. The government has been in the business of providing more than just positive rights to the people for a long time - do I have a right to a paved road? "It's a right" is just a nice false spin to add to the already compelling (but maybe not compelling enough) "we should all chip in, it's the right thing to do".