that as a society, we may have a duty or obligation to provide certain things including health care, but the whole innate rights thing escapes me. I understand life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as rights. Those things are innate by the fact that they exist naturally if no one acts to interfere. Things that must be paid for by others are not inherent rights.
I would like to see universal preventive health care if it can be done in a way that makes sense. Since we already provide charitable free health care for illness it should be doable by the prevention of critical illness and the cost associated with those illnesses.
In order to realize those savings, will we require by law that individuals avail themselves of preventive care and if they don't, do we imprison them, or perhaps just deny them the critical care that is already available.
In my State, free medical care, preventive and otherwise, is available for children, yet many illnesses go undiagnosed due to failure to use the services available.
It is complicated and there are many questions, not the least of which is, what do we want that we don't already have?
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A good argument can be made
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- What would happen if - - - ?
- That was interesting.
- How can an invention be a basic right?
- re: How can an invention be a basic right?
- A good argument can be made
- re: "Things that must be paid for by others are not inherent rights."
- In my state
- Government health care
- It is a bad situation for those in the category of Eri and Alcaray
- It's a good thing we're on flame.
- Are you saying that clean water and a house are innate and basic rights?
- A good argument can be made
- Not necessarily so.
- re: How can an invention be a basic right?