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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (5089)	2/29/2008 8:32:16 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

You are talking about different kinds of "help." You help someone near you who is having a medical incident. You remove him from immediate danger and you call 911, at the minimum. Decent people do that. Providing him with a cholesterol test is something else again. Passersby don't do that. Nor do passersby create affirmative rights to medical care.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (5089)	3/1/2008 4:07:49 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

The issue was about my response to J_F_Shepard collapsing as I walk past. He implied that the fact that I don't think there is, or properly can be a natural right to health care would mean I wouldn't do anything to help him. My point was that the two ideas where not connected and in fact I would be very likely to help him. I would hope that my mood at the time wouldn't change this propensity to help in any significant way. Obviously my ability to help would effect what I do. If you want to talk about a system, change the topic to systems with some clear specific question or statement. But that wasn't the topic under discussion. but it really shouldn't be about you. The statement was made about me, so my reply was properly about me.