Is Health Care a Human Right?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/23/Top_Senate_Aides_Debate_Health_Care_Reform

Senate staffers Kate Leone and Russ Sullivan state that the goal of health care reform is to make sure it is affordable and accessible to all. Debate about how to achieve that goal has included the possibility of making basic health coverage mandatory.

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New School President and former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey hosts a debate from the recording studio in the U.S. Senate to discuss the health care reform debate raging on Capitol Hill.

He is joined by three top advisors to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senators Edward Kennedy and Max Baucus, the Democratic leaders shaping reform legislation.

Panelists provide an inside look at the latest proposed legislative approaches to health care reform, including a public health care plan, reducing reform's price tag, taxing employer-provided health care benefits, points of agreement -- and tension -- between the White House and Congress, and lessons learned from the Massachusetts model of universal coverage. - The New School

Kate Leone is senior health counsel to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). She works on Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, health coverage, and prescription drug and medical device issues. Ms. Leone joined Senator Reid's staff in January 2005 after serving as counsel to the previous Senate Democratic Leader, Tom Daschle, and working as a senior policy advisor with the Senate Democratic Policy Committee.

Russ Sullivan plays a leading role in helping the Senate Finance Committee, led by Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), to shape the nation's tax system. Mr. Sullivan served as the committee's chief tax counsel under former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) and as tax counsel and legislative director for then-Senator Bob Graham (D-FL).

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[flynn2008]

I believe we have the right to help each other. but Not the right to use force to help each other.

[gethsoftware]

@qwertypoiu4321 crime is something that demands consensus. for instace capital punishment is crime in my eyes and such shuld be illigal. in optimal freedoem there is no crime bechose there is no socaity or police. we sacriface freedomes for stability. thus we create rules and laws witch are made to stop anti-social actions or encourage good actions. this is reason why tribes, clans, towns,citys and nations are born. unity of community demands that we give same value to life of other as our own.

[gethsoftware]

@qwertypoiu4321 not all. upkeep of socaity is a duty and that, includes healthcare. allso, crime is not the same everywhere. complete freedome is anarchy. in order to be part of socaity you have to give out some freedomes. only reason to why things are crimes is that we make them ones. so in order to make something a crime there shuld be good reasons to it. some are abvios like murder and stealing. we all give some number of freedomes in order to have savety.

[guyjohn59]

Did the millions of Russians that starved to death under Lenin and Stalin have 'the right' to not starve to death? Probably; but because they believed in that right, they starved to death.

[Gondring]

@JoeJC -- But all it takes is to join a union and send money to the Democrats and you can get a waiver from the onerous law.

[qwertypoiu4321]

@thirdshift47 Everything--all good, services and actions--should be voluntary. Everyone that violates the Non-Coercion Principle should be charged as such. There is no such thing as the freedom to commit criminal coercion, that is a criminal action and should be charged as such.

[thirdshift47]

@qwertypoiu4321

And what is 'criminal',much less criminal coersion?

Freedom & crime are both social constructs that appear nowhere in nature.In heirarchical civil society the ruling class generally defines crime,which is one of the reasons that libertarianism & ideologies of conscience were born.

The idea that a few people could control all basic resources & services & that the rest of the globe should just respect the 'voluntary' decision to allow everyone else to go without is scary.

[qwertypoiu4321]

@thirdshift47 The freedom to commit criminal coercion is not a 'philosophical question', it does not exist. Everything--all goods, services and actions--should be voluntary, anyone that commits coercion should be charged as such.

[thirdshift47]

@qwertypoiu4321

In the pure,natural world of biological determinism there are no 'rights' strictly speaking,esp., human rights.

The question of whether or not Health Care should be a basic right is a philosophical question regarding Americans interpretation of our Declaration Of Independence's 'right to life' stipulation as well as a basic question of the rational & moral standards a civilization seeks to set for itself.

At the moment the US is on the lunatic fringe of health rights.

[qwertypoiu4321]

You have a right to freedom and Voluntarism, not a right to commit criminal coercion.

Coercive Sector Medical Care is criminal and all of the individuals upholding it should be charged as such. Everything should be voluntary, the opposite of criminal socialism.