Upscale wrote:

Isn't it funny how almost everybody in the US that is against
universal health care is currently protected by some sort of medical
plan? What about all those literally millions and millions of US
citizens that aren't covered by anything?

What about them?

They're your people and they
are part of what makes the US such a great nation. Don't they deserve
some sort of health protection.

They have it. By most metrics, the most destitute in the U.S. get better
care than the upper classes in England.


I once stated that the most important human right was to be healthy.

Every "right" someone claims imposes a "duty" on someone else. Every single
one. When I am FORCED to diminish my life so that someone else's life can be
made better, there must be a compelling reason.

Mill jumped in and stated that it was freedom. The fact is that
illness and especially chronic illness without health care is a loss
of freedom that the healthy can never possibly comprehend.

Choices have consequences. One who chooses a dissolute life-style - or even
one who failed to provide for his own contingencies - must face the harvest
of that which he sowed.