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

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (35977)	4/19/2014 11:03:23 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Why is my decision to render assistance (if I even can) to someone on a sidewalk different from that person having a "right" to health care? I suppose because if I choose to, I can legally step around them and try to make my appointment, and just not get involved. No one has that obligation because there is no right to health care. In this country most of our rights are not things given to us; they are things our government is prevented from doing -- like forcing us to testify against our selves or submit to unreasonable searches and seizures. Even those "rights" aren't absolute because they have been so heavily watered down by the courts. I'm not sure we really have that many "absolute" rights, when you get down to it.