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To: SilentZ who wrote (525478)	1/17/2004 11:21:48 AM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

So being able to live a long, healthy life is a privilege, not a right? certainly not a "right" constitutionally. Then end result of one's life is certainly influenced by much more than health insurance. Most factors are dependent results of personal choice. However, there are no rights to long healthy lives or happiness if you care to toss that one in also. Where are these "rights" of which you peak? Where are they recorded? Who or what guarantees these rights? Perhaps I was incorrect in drawing the inference that you believed there is a right to live a long, healthy life

To: SilentZ who wrote (525478)	1/17/2004 11:59:26 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

So being able to live a long, healthy life is a privilege, not a right? I marvel that you would even ask such a thing. People, young people, often die; and they do so because of no one's fault but Mother Nature's. It is not Nature's responsibility to see to it that they all live 'long, healthy lives,' and it is certainly not mine. Governments consist merely of groups of people, none of which has an innate responsibility to buy goods, including health insurance, for others. They may form willing coalitions to buy such goods, but they obviously have no natural responsibility to do so.