Quote from: Findeton on June 04, 2011, 09:22:56 PM

Quote from: BCEmporium on June 04, 2011, 08:52:25 PM

We need more Government to restrict the financial World; I guess none would like to live in a World "bitcoin-like", taken the behavior of the highly speculator-infested up to so far...
We DO NOT need more gvnmt however to impose services nobody wants, "give a hand to the godsons", and alike.

In order for health to be a right, we need to pay taxes for a cheap socialized universal health care like any important european country, instead of a privatized children-eating expensive health care like the one in the US.

A right that requires something be forcibly taken in order to provide it is not on morally sound ground.

There is no "right" health when that health is provided by taking wealth from another. A better name would be an "entitlement".

Governments around the world have made it their business to create ever more entitlements (and call them rights). The financial collapse many of them now find themselves trying to cope with is a direct result of the fact that increasing entitlements require increasing suppliers to provide them; and those suppliers are better off flipping to the "entitlement" side. Buying votes with voters own money has only one inevitable outcome, and we can already see the beginnings of that outcome happening all over europe.

The fact that privatised health care in the US is a disaster is nothing to do with the privatisation and everything to do with the ridiculous list of laws that allow rent-seeking insurance companies to milk consumers. There are plenty of countries that have less socialised health care, that works far better than the US or the European states.