In the Attempt to Take Control of the Healthcare Industry, Politicians Try to Blur the Lines Between a ‘Human Right’ and a ‘Good or Service’ By: Curtis Ophoven 11/5/2009 - 5 Comments Personal health is made up of two things; personal responsibility and healthcare treatment. Your Ad Here Healthcare is not a human right and cannot be allowed to be mislabeled.  Healthcare is no more of a human right than a haircut. Just because healthcare is very personal does not make it a human right that the government can or should supply.  Wealthy nations can afford to invest more money into new healthcare technologies that result is improved healthcare treatments.  Investments come from a surplus of savings, which come from an increase in productivity.  Healthcare is a valuable service that costs money to produce and more money can pay for better service.  That means that the wealthier you are the better healthcare you will be able to afford.  But the poor that live in wealthy nations will also have better healthcare as they take advantage of the investments in healthcare by the wealthy. Human rights are defined in our constitution as the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – with the Bill of Rights. Human rights are "basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled.” Human rights don’t cost anything to give someone because they are given to them by God when they are born, although they cost money to protect so that they are not taken away. The right to life is a human right that is protected by the government and punishable when someone takes someone’s life.   But the service of healthcare cannot be a basic right that all humans are entitled because its quality depends on its investment and therefore it is impossible to determine what level of quality to stop at. A government is inadequate in deciding how much healthcare someone should or should not get.  Furthermore, personal health is made up of two things; personal responsibility and healthcare treatment.  A government is inadequate in determining or motivating a change in personal responsibility.  The motivation for well being of personal health is best solved by the free market, just as private property results in the motivation for the well being of personal assets. If healthcare was passed as a ‘human right’, it would mean that the entire medical industry would become a mandated extension of the governments’ responsibility to provide and manage personal healthcare which they are incapable of providing. Healthcare is not a human right and it never will be.  Its time we stopped pretending that government run healthcare is even possible.   Subscribe via RSS Copyright © 2010 PennyJobs.com. All rights reserved. << FREE >> Weekly Newsletter... Signup today and start receiving our free weekly newsletter! Reader Comments Comment 1 Lawrence Says: on Sunday, November 08, 2009 3:48:06 AM It's all smoke and mirrors. I can't believe they've been able to get so many people to drink this Kool-Aid. Comment 2 maggie Says: on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 8:08:34 AM It seems that when I grew up all American's had universal health care--there was no insurance back then- if you didn't have $, you could pay your Dr. with chickens--the poorest of the poor the Dr.'s would treat for nothing--but most everyone paid and all were treated-!! so it seems insurance changed the rules of the game-!! the medical costs have sky-rocketed and even average persons cannot afford health insurance without employer help--so, I believe BASIC health care is nessasary to provide your citizens--the time has come for GOV to help because the INSURANCE CO got to greedy-!!!! Comment 3 Curt Says: on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 12:07:36 PM @maggie - It's not the insurance companies that have forced their way in between Dr's and patience's, it's the government that has forced insurance companies to get between Dr's and patience's. The reason that insurance companies appear greedy is because the government put them in a position to become rich, and they simply acted on the business advantages that the government gave them. You and I would have done the same thing. Government intervention is the source of the healthcare price increases and more government intervention is only going to increase prices even more. If we deduce government regulation and force insurance companies to compete with each other, prices will come down and everyone will be able to afford healthcare like they used to be able to.  The other difference when you grew up was that people were free to live and free to die. That is not the case today, with government intervention insurance companies are forces to cover medical treatments that prevent people that cannot afford the treatment from dying.  Years ago, if you couldn't afford a medical treatment then you would be treated with whatever you could afford and sometimes the result was that you died.  The point is that you were free to die and that freedom motivated you to live as healthy as you could. Today, you don't have the freedom to die - because the government will always cover your medical bills and therefore we have lost the motivation to live healthy.  Comment 4 courtnay Says: on Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:04:08 AM that is stupid they should not take health care away from people because some people can not afford everytime they go to the hospital or doctors. so yea this should stop and quit trying to take everything away from the poor people. Thank you for reading this. Courtnay Comment 5 courtnay Says: on Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:05:06 AM i also agree with the 3rd one........ Write a Comment Please keep comments civil and on-topic. Abusive or inappropriate comments will be removed without warning.  Name (required)     Email Address (required)     Website URL  Comment

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