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2013-08-19 Government

Champ's radio address: 'Health insurance a right' - Wash Times

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Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Health Insurance (Obamacare) is a tax. (see Supreme Court Decision)

Headline should read "Health Insurance a Right Tax"

Posted by Unolulet Hupomoling9738 2013-08-19 00:24|| 2013-08-19 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 You do not get to determine "Rights" You are supposed to be an executive Law guy but whatever the Moslem Brotherhood buys you.....?....

Posted by newc 2013-08-19 02:22|| 2013-08-19 02:22|| Front Page Top

#3 "People don't have rights, they have opportunities" LL

But, if there were rights, I'd put not having to suffer idiots gladly as the foremost.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-08-19 05:41|| 2013-08-19 05:41|| Front Page Top

#4 How can health insurance be a restriction on government?

He's so thick he can't tell rights from entitlements.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-08-19 07:47|| 2013-08-19 07:47|| Front Page Top

#5 By extension, 'Planned Parenthood' must then be a... 'right'.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-19 08:06|| 2013-08-19 08:06|| Front Page Top

#6 The way they sell it, its a patriotic obligation.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-08-19 08:36|| 2013-08-19 08:36|| Front Page Top

#7 However, the enumerated rights in the 'Bill of Rights' are "waiverable" according to words and actions of this administration.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-08-19 09:34|| 2013-08-19 09:34|| Front Page Top

#8 There cannot be any right without a corresponding obligation on the part of someone else. If I have a right not to self-incriminate then there must be an obligation on the part of the police not to try to make me. Otherwise, the "right" is meaningless -- like a right to ride a unicorn whenever I want.

What Champ is saying is that some of us have an obligation to pay for medical services for the rest of us.

Posted by Elmearong Gurly-Brown5896 2013-08-19 10:44|| 2013-08-19 10:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Health insurance is a choice.

Posted by Uneaper Spairong8790 2013-08-19 11:03|| 2013-08-19 11:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Health insurance is just as much a 'right' as a paycheck, Food, Cell-phone, 60" Plasma TV, and fancy car.

And don't forget the short shackles tied to the Government you lock around your ankles yourself. That is a right which goes along with all the other 'rigts' above.

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-08-19 11:25|| 2013-08-19 11:25|| Front Page Top

#11 Fat paycheck, plenty of excellent food, top-of-the-line cell phone, new every six months, thank you very much. And generous COLA's, too. And a pony.

Posted by Bobby 2013-08-19 12:07|| 2013-08-19 12:07|| Front Page Top

#12 Its not a right if you have to take it from somone else. My right to speak freely and peaceably assemble doesn't stop you from speaking, my right to practice (or not) religion doesn't stop you from yours, my right to keep and bear arms does not preclude you from doing so.

But a right to healthcare? How does that work? Healthcare is a product of someone else, not a basic item the depends on the person exercising the right, like speech or religion, or self defense.

Such things are not "rights" by any regular ethical or moral means.

Bottom line: How can you claim it as a right? Do you ultimately force doctors and nurses to provide care at gunpoint? THats not a right, its thievery. Would you *trust* that sort of healthcare?

Posted by OldSpook 2013-08-19 20:23|| 2013-08-19 20:23|| Front Page Top

#13 Rights are costless and free.

Posted by mossomo 2013-08-19 21:44|| 2013-08-19 21:44|| Front Page Top

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