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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (525482)	1/17/2004 11:23:34 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

A "right" is a legally enforceable claim. Universal health care is not yet a universal right - only partly a right for part of our society. Those who have this right don't care about those who don't have this right.

To: TideGlider who wrote (525482)	1/17/2004 11:32:04 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

>Perhaps I was incorrect in drawing the inference that you believed there is a right to live a long, healthy life Actually, it was a silly, off-the-cuff, way for me to state what I meant... What I meant, now that think of it, was, shouldn't it be a priority for the government to make sure that it isn't so much easier for a rich person to live a long, healthy life, than for a poor person? Of course, that point is completely undebatable... it's an opinion. I'm going to believe that the answer is "yes", you're going to believe it's "no", and there's no way for you to convince me otherwise or for me to convince you otherwise. It's sort of like abortion -- PROLIFE is not going to be able to convince me that a fetus and a baby are not the same thing, and I'll never convince him of the opposite. -Z