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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since healthcare must be performed by others and has to be paid for, how is it a right?  If it is a right, what does that look like?  Free neighborhood clinics or cancer treatment at MD Anderson?  [/quote]

It's not a right. My thinking is this:

You are put on this earth for a limited time. 
Part of your time is spent working and paying the bills.
Part of your time is spent paying taxes. Taxes should be for the legitimate functions of government, no more and no less.
Health insurance is not in the charter of the government as the framers (founders) saw it.
So the government is confiscating part of your time on earth to pay for health care of complete strangers (theft). That is not a legitimate function of government.

Any payment by the citizenry should be completely voluntary.  You don't pay, you don't receive health care.  End all tax payer subsidies to it.[/quote]

So disband Medicare? What are you going to do for healthcare when you retire then? Clearly, all elderly retired people have zero right to healthcare unless they can pay exorbitant premiums and/or out-of-pocket.[/quote]

It’s very shameful that we gutted unions and pensions in the same manner and now Medicaid and soon Medicare will get gutted. They want the elderly to work till they die to make up for the low employment among teens. [/quote]

Side note: why don’t more teens work? I’m curious. My kids are the only ones I know with summer jobs. None of their friends have ever had summer work.[/quote]

Because so many adults need work they now take the jobs that used to be considered “teen work”. [/quote]

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