Or, as it may better be put, the indentured servitude of trained health care professionals. NetRightDaily:
We have all heard it said that health care is a right, an entitlement, a fundamental freedom that the government should guarantee.
Let’s assume it is. A right on equal footing with those other precious liberties enumerated in the Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution.
The much debated Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees the individual right to keep and bear arms, ensuring that every law-abiding citizen has the choice of whether to own and possess a firearm for their protection and the national defense.
However, no one, even the most ardent gun advocate interprets this right to convey a responsibility for the people of the United States through their taxes to be forced to subsidize the exercising of this right.
No legal argument has been presented that because a citizen has a right to keep arms, the rest of the citizenry should purchase the gun and ammunition for that individual.
No moral argument has been made that failure of the government to forcibly require firearm and ammunition manufacturers and those who actually craft the product to forego payments because some individual citizens find the cost of exercising their rights to be prohibitively expensive.
Yet, those who proclaim health care a right effectively attempt to do just this in the name of cost controls. These controls effectively dictate the worth of the labor, training, expertise and ingenuity of the very doctors who without which, the system collapses.
The basic premise of those who believe that health care is a right is that the man or woman who spent their teens and twenties training to be able to provide patient’s the best possible medical treatment effectively becomes the slaves of the state due to the importance of their work.
Not only should they not be able to charge a non-government controlled price for their services, but they should only treat ailments within the government proscribed parameters.
Enslaving the best and the brightest under the guise of the people’s right to health care makes as much sense as compelling taxpayers to purchase guns for every citizen who desires one.
Yet it is the only possible outcome when a people decide that their access to the intellect, training and skill of another is a basic human right. A right that demands that the mere decision to practice medicine or find a new procedure or drug that helps defeat disease, serves as the opt-in ascent to being fitted with government handcuffs upon certification.
A so-called right that puts the productive minority at the mercy of their overlords in the majority is no right at all.
It is as moral as an armed robbery, but the impact is even greater. The right to health care is designed to turn doctors into quasi-government officials tasked with detailing each of our most intimate medical issues to allow more cost-effective treatment options in the future.
The end result of the imposition of a new right to health care will be no health care at all.
With this government dictated right, the ballot box becomes the allocator of health resources. The needs of the sick become subsumed to the whims of whichever disease group has the most powerful lobby.
Those who declare the right to health care are guaranteed to impose government treatment rules that inject the taxpayer’s consideration into the middle of the doctor/patient treatment decisions. After all, if the taxpayer is footing the bill, then certainly the government should be part of the treatment decision making.
Every bit of this is true, and what is so frustrating is that it is really quite obvious, and requires an intent to bracket who this supposed “right” enslaves for it to be considered a right at all. In other words, if enough people want it, and they can screw somebody else to get it, they’ll take it, so long as they can sell it as their “right.”
It’s been sad watching this country collapse under the stress of leftist sophistry, emotionalism, divisiveness, political correctness, and the progressive’s attempt to enshrine positive rights that all but guarantee that we have a kind of de facto police state run by a government who controls us as subjects.
But then again, we should have seen it coming. I mean, how many seasons did “Full House” run for, again?
The lights in the collective western brainpan are either too distracted or too dull to manage more than a flicker. God help us.
Given that positive rights increase the power of the tyrant over the subjects and that we’ve very few virtuous elected officials, it’s easy to see how these things happen. And the philosophical problems pointed out in the linked piece will be ignored, of course. As a nation, we’ve lost our virtue, though a remnant may retain it. It’s no wonder we’re in this spot, and you’re last sentence is correct. Only God can help us now, I fear.
you can whine to your god
myself and 30 million other Americans will finally be going to the doctor
You should see a doctor Dalekhunter. You’re obviously sick to death with your own superiority.
i know, my desire to engage with systems enjoyed by a majority of the developed world just smack of narcissism. you can keep your tarted up third world medical system – I want something better, and we’re going to get it
My question has always been why did they need to turn everything up-side-down just to cover 30 million people?
The answer of course is that they did not need to.
Oh come on bgbear, quit looking behind the curtain. That sort of inquiry just isn’t fair.
“Enjoyed”? I don’t think it means what you think it means, DK.
The stupid – it burns!
You can’t go to the doctor unless somebody other than yourself pays for it?
What? You’re three years old? Where’s your mommy?
And just out of curiosity, you do know that your
freetax-payer subsidized wellness check that is your right isn’t the same thing as a doctor’s physical exam, don’t you?I’m unensurable, DoofusHat. Most of the time, I work as a contractor with insurance so skimpy it wouldn’t buy a band-aid for a severed limb. I also have a few chronic conditions going on that require that I purchase expensive medication.
I have zero desire to be affiliated in any way with Obamacare. I’ve been paying out of pocket for years and I like it just fine.
But I won’t be allowed to purchase a high-deductible policy for love or money. Explain why that’s a good thing and not a sop to insurance companies.
…you can keep your tarted up third world medical system – I want something better, and we’re going to get it
Oh, you’re going to get it, Dale. Good and hard. It’s just a shame that you’re forcing those of us with intelligence to go down the toilet with you.
By the way — where do third-world oligarchs go when they need high-quality medical care? (Here’s a hint: everybody in Rochester, MN works for them.)
Now, let’s guess what’s next. I’m guessing that we all have a “right” to running water, so Dale needs Uncle Sam to provide him with a plumber every time one of his drunken idiot friends tries to flush his ball gag down the toilet.
Everybody in Rochester MN works for third-world oligarchs? I did not know that. Did you know that Ed?
/Carson impersonation.
Let’s see……
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/hospital_patient_loads_often_at_unsafe_levels_physician_survey_says
According to the link, over the next ten years 1 in 3 doctors will be leaving the field. Also stated, doctors believe they can safely see 15 patients per shift.
Then there’s this link:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304506904575180331528424238.html
Which would seem to understate the shortfall.
You may think you and 30,000,000 others are going to the doctor but the math indicates otherwise.
Hey, I know what we can do. We can make it a crime to leave the profession. Also, we can get the government to cap how much a physician can earn. Those sound like sure fire winners.
Shoot, and here we’d been led to believe that Rochester worked for Jack Benny.
My eye doctor is retiring early in October. And he let me know why too. And it’s O’s AHCA bullshit.
I’m sure DKH would be happy to wait in line for six to eight hours before seeing a nurse practitioner originally from the Indian subcontinent.
As long as it’s free. And the clinic’s freewi-fi isn’t so overloaded that he can’t tweet and update his Facebook status and maybe sext a little or play Angry Birds on his freeObamaphone while he’s waiting all day.
“you can keep your tarted up third world medical system”
You mean Kennedy’s HMO system that drove prices up and worked worse than what it replaced the last time you leftist shitheads “fixed” a drummed up “healthcare crisis”? But it’s nice to see you putting your hand print in the drying concrete of this farcically insane, festering, political time bomb of shit pile so you can have extra credibility demanding single player once AHC implodes.
“I’m sure DKH would be happy to wait in line for six to eight hours before seeing a nurse practitioner originally from the Indian subcontinent. ”
And if he isn’t happy they’ll send him off for sensitivity training since being unhappy is racist.
Hell, being unhappy is probably unhealthy too so he’ll have to fix that or be lumped in with the fat people and smokers as a behavior related high risk group who pay way more for the same terrible shit.
(Mostly) true fact; Those Mayo brothers were grave robbers Also, one of them ‘napped the corpse of a noble native American ignobly hung, either for the crime of failing to secure consent for relations with a white woman, or for pre-emptive self defense, in the largest mass execution in U.S history.
So, naturally
third world medicine
Y’all aren’t surreptitiously pointing to Ronald Coase (RIP) are ye?
DKH is like most people. They have strong beliefs about other systems with no supporting evidence. All you need to know about single-payer can be learned driving on U.S. Highway 2, 30 miles from the Canadian border through North Dakota and Montana. Every little town has a medical imaging center which does land office business catering to Canadians. They fly the maple leaf and have signs welcoming them in. Why? Because you have to wait weeks or months for an MRI or CT scan in Canada. That’s what we’re facing come January 1.
Their emotional investment is all the evidence they need, and you’re a H8R for saying otherwise!!!1!!
The Dalek blathered the script it was given, including:
Good and hard.
….and someone beat me to that obvious retort. *sigh*
Dalekhunter says September 3, 2013 at 12:18 pm
i know, my desire to engage with systems enjoyed by a majority of the developed world just smack of narcissism. you can keep your tarted up third world medical system – I want something better, and we’re going to get it
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