You Do Not Have a Right to Free Health Care

It would be great if everyone could get quality health care for free while doctors get paid a fair wage, hospitals can pay their employees, and pharmaceutical companies get funded for research and development for your next life saving prescription for...well...free. If anyone has any ideas on how to make that work, I'm all for it. However, until someone invents that we're stuck with the old fashioned someone has to pay for it system. That basically leaves us with two options: 1)pay for it ourselves hopefully with the help of insurance or 2) have government foot the bill which basically means we're paying for it anyway. Neither option sounds very appealing.


Obama and company are pushing health care reform hard and the basic reform they are pushing is giving anyone who wants it the ability to opt in to a government funded health insurance system paid for by you and me. Not to sound selfish, but I don't really want to pay for your health insurance. I already pay for my own family's insurance to the tune of $400 a month for the premium alone. The basic tenant of the Obama plan is that health care is a right so it's the obligation of all of us to see that those who cannot afford to pay for their own health care aren't left without medical treatment. As a follower of God, or just as a decent person I feel the right and moral thing to do is to help those who can't help themselves. However, that does not mean that everyone has a right to free or even affordable health care. If something is a right, then anyone and everyone is entitled to it including those in our country who are here illegally, those who could work but don't, and those who simply do not want to pay for their health care.

On the radio today a caller to the Michael Medved show stated he was a teacher who was retiring soon and would have to begin paying $500 a month for his health insurance out of his pension which is only $3000 a month. He was incredulous that he would have to pay for his own coverage. Is it a shame that a man who worked as a teacher for 35 years would then have to pay so much money for health care during his retirement - possibly. However, it is definitely a shame that someone who was worked for 35 years, who probably no longer has a mortgage, no longer has kids to feed, and likely has a sizable savings expects my family with two kids feed, a hefty mortgage, and a savings that competes with my daughter's piggy bank to subsidize his health insurance premium. This attitude of entitlement has become so pervasive in this country with Obama leading the way. However, with Obama's approval rating quickly falling I can only hope that people are finally realizing what they got themselves into. I hope that people realize that the Democrat party can only be the party of the very rich or the very poor. The reality is the rich are the only ones that can afford it and the poor are the only who will benefit. Meanwhile the other 90% of us have to pay so the rich can feel good and the poor continue to have no encouragement from our government to help themselves. Well, I don't work all day so Alec Baldwin can feel good about himself and so that Billy Bob can play X-Box all day instead of bagging groceries.