re: #389 jcm

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

Fundamentally and fatally flawed thinking.

No one as a RIGHT to any of those things.

A RIGHT is intrinsic to an individual, it can only be exercised by the individual. A RIGHT is not BESTOWED upon an individual. The individual has all rights, they can be denied, or not exercised, or in a civil society the individual can willing restrict certain rights so as not to infringe on others.

You have a right to access them, to obtain them, through your own effort, not a right TO them.

A RIGHT places no obligation on anyone else. Placing an obligation on others to provide rights, denies them their rights.

Is it really a source of national pride to deny that a basic level of health care should be a right of every citizen, regardles of ability to pay?
Call me a fucking commie, but I don’t think so.