Monday, August 3rd, 2009
The rule that disproves the exception…or something like that…
In which Yuval Levin learns not to assume, because it makes an ASS out of U and ME:
All sides in the contemporary debate are trying to find a way to provide health insurance to more people more efficiently and cheaply. They are not divided about any fundamental ethical question. People on the Left are not saying we should provide unlimited medical care to all without thinking about the cost because health care is a right: They’re arguing their approach would cost less and work better for more people. People on the Right are not saying we should forget about the poor because health care is just a privilege: They’re arguing their approach would cost less and work better for more people.
Umm, yeah. About that statement, Mr. Levin…
House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (a moonbat Democrat) is going to introduce a constitutional amendment that would establish healthcare as a “right” for all Americans.
See what I mean?
He says, “We need a real serious bill and, by the way, the fundamental question, ‘Is health care a constitutional right?’ I mean, do you have a right to health care in the American system of government or not?” He goes on to say, “Well, we believe that people do and we’re introducing a constitutional amendment just to make it real clear so that you don’t have to infer or assume that that’s a given and all that.”
This is par for the course for Conyers. He’s a fool … a big government fool. You, however, probably see through this.
Look … it’s this simple. In order for you to receive health care someone else has to either expend time or property. To claim a “right” to health care is to claim a “right” to someone else’s time .. that is, a right to a portion of their life: whatever portion of their life it takes for them to either render the health service or produce the medical implement or drug that is being used. Hate to break this to you … but who in the hell do you think you are to claim a portion of someone else’s life as YOURS? [bolding mine — Ed.]
Yuval Levin, meet Neal Boortz. Neal Boortz, Yuval Levin. I’m sure you’ll get along just swimmingly.
