Simple Question - Is Healthcare a human right?

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Do you feel that healthcare is a human right? Secondly do you feel that education to the age of 18 is a human right?

Finally which is more important to you - your health or your education?

[familyguy 2]

What anyone "feels" about it doesn't matter until they translate those feelings into having their elected officials translate it into law. It is what the law does or does not say about it that counts.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I think every person has the right to have their life saved from impending death or harm. Anyone should be able to walk into an Emergency Room at any hospital and not be denied needed treatment because of inability to pay.

Following that line of logic - it makes more sense to treat them before they reach the point of needing emergency care.

[luckytxn 2,265]

The Federal government has no right to meddle in our affairs. If we in the states or even better the locally want schools and health care then we should and tax ourselves to do so. The Feds and their cookie cutter approach do more harm than good to us citizens.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

The Federal government has no right to meddle in our affairs. If we in the states or even better the locally want schools and health care then we should and tax ourselves to do so. The Feds and their cookie cutter approach do more harm than good to us citizens.

According to what? If you think Social Security and Medicare are a violation of your Constitutional Rights, fight it. Take your gripe up to the Supreme Court.

[GabiandVi 34]

Healthcare is not a right. A right is something that can be taken from you but should not be, something that you are born with. Healthcare is something that is given to you. No one has a right to demand someone else give them something (except a young child from his/her parents.) It is, however, our responsibility as human beings (not the responsibility of a non-human entity such as a government) to care for our fellow man. If we decide to give that responsibility over to our government, that is our choice, but it still remains our responsibility. We can't wipe our hands and think we are done with it.

The same is true of education. It is not the right of the individual. We have decided that we want to spend the money because it benefits us as a society to have an educated citizenry, and we have made it the responsibility of the guardians to see that their children be educated until the age of 16. We need to remember that and hold the guardians and the students to certain minimum standards.

I would value healthcare over education. Systematic education is fairly arbitrary. Curricula are slow to keep up with the needs of society. It is impossible to predict what each and every student will need to be successful in their futures beyond the basics such as communication skills and higher order thinking skills. If we had the will we could find the means to educate ourselves or our children outside of a system of education. But beyond the basics, we cannot heal ourselves. We cannot perform surgery or magnetically resonate images of our internal organs, for example.

[Empress of Groovy 373]

It's not a simple question because what constitutes a right is abstract. In the U.S., health care and education are both rights in the legal sense, at least to a degree. In fact, education is compulsory (which, some may argue, impinges on people's rights). And according to U.S. law, anyone who enters an emergency dept. has a legal right to emergency care given that he or she can't be turned away because of inability to pay. Of course, the hospital, doctor, etc., has a right to send that person absurdly gigantic bills. The law is one thing, but the reality is often another.

I do think the U.S. has a moral obligation to provide a more equitable and transparent health care system for everyone and a more equal education for the obvious reasons that society as a whole would benefit, and it's morally right. The current health care system is an absolute clusterfuck, and why some people continue to defend it is mystifying. The quality of education varies widely, but at least there are real, ongoing (if misguided and ineffective) attempts to improve it, and not all the problems stem from funding issues.

[Otto 83]

Wasn't there a poll with this same/similar question?

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=214415

Guess the word 'human' wasn't part of the poll (as in Human Right).

[My Name Is Nobody 3]

Hell no

Not even a ligitimate question.

Put your hands back in your pocket. We are in the USA not Canada or Europe

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Hell no

Not even a ligitimate question.

Put your hands back in your pocket. We are in the USA not Canada or Europe

[Danno 1,228]

Of course "Health care" is a broad term anyway.

IS dental care covered? Cleanings? Braces for unsightly teeth?

Would caps be a right or does the right end at extracting the tooth?

Is mental health also a right too? Suicide counseling? how about Marriage counseling?

Cosmetic surgeries? Breast implants after mastectomy? If woman just naturally has very small breasts... and it's causing her depression?

Do human rights vary from time to time or from one group of people to another or... are Human rights a constant?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Of course "Health care" is a broad term anyway.

IS dental care covered? Cleanings? Braces for unsightly teeth?

Would caps be a right or does the right end at extracting the tooth?

Is mental health also a right too? Suicide counseling? how about Marriage counseling?

Cosmetic surgeries? Breast implants after mastectomy? If woman just naturally has very small breasts... and it's causing her depression?

Do human rights vary from time to time or from one group of people to another or... are Human rights a constant?

Should a child die of hunger tonight? Should we feed that child cake? So many questions to ponder.

[HAL 9000 96]

Calm down Socrates.

No... I don't think its a right in the sense of rights to undisturbed life. It can be legislated to be a right in the sense that its protected from abuse by providers, much like the current bills are trying to accomplish beyond the fallacious hysteria being propagated.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

I also do not believe that healthcare is a human right. However what I have identified is that it seems most people support public education and that if a person's health is actually more important then their education then the logical conclusion is that healthcare should be brought under the public's wing.

I for one went to private school and my parents paid for it. I in turn will probably send my son or daughter to private school depending on the school district. Likewise even with a public plan, if I feel my family needs better quality service then I will pay for a private insurer that can deliver it.

[HAL 9000 96]

I also do not believe that healthcare is a human right. However what I have identified is that it seems most people support public education and that if a person's health is actually more important then their education then the logical conclusion is that healthcare should be brought under the public's wing.

I for one went to private school and my parents paid for it. I in turn will probably send my son or daughter to private school depending on the school district. Likewise even with a public plan, if I feel my family needs better quality service then I will pay for a private insurer that can deliver it.

Bingo. And that's all that we know is in the drafts to this point.

Gotta jet.