Healthcare: Sanders vs Paul

Senator Sanders and Senator Paul debate whether health care is a human right and the implications of that right.

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News & Politics

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• healthcare
• medicare
• health care clinics
• Rand Paul
• senate hearings
• HELP committee
• Bernie Sanders
• Sanders vs Paul

[Edgehead10075]

I'm more on the conservative side, but healthcare is a human right. It's a life or death issue. No one should be left to die for lack of money. The government should help out those who can't afford healthcare. Rand Paul really isn't that bright, and it's noticeable.

[Edgehead10075]

Okay, but weren't Medicare and Medicaid enacted because some people, especially the elderly, couldn't afford healthcare?

Without student loans, wouldn't many kids not be able to afford college?

[kkbose]

Look how Rand Paul twist the whole thing into a extremist fear mongering position. Canada, UK and France have much better healthcare system than US. The Doctors there do not feel like slaves. They are happy to do their jobs.

[Activeassholeonpills]

@hotroddy74 Instead of writing 15 fucking comments in response to my singular comment, send me a message. Stop turning this comments section into some kind of twisted soap box for your BS. A wall of text consisting of platitudes just makes you look like a fuckwit!

[hotroddy74]

@Activeassholeonpills I suppose corruption never happens behind the scenes to ensure the people do not prosper, and so the mega rich do. I suppose all this transfer of wealth was pure accident, the system that caused it is still great though, even though it will continue.

[hotroddy74]

@Activeassholeonpills "[F]reedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages."

[hotroddy74]

@Activeassholeonpills Ron Paul is absolutely right on everything, you all will find out the hard way and soooo wish you had listened. Giving free anything just drives prices up and takes jobs, it is common sense. Taxing the rich does the same thing, it helps no one but the rich in the long run and we are left with an economy like this, just getting worse.

[hotroddy74]

@Activeassholeonpills There is no such thing as free anything and we have a right to life not healthcare, it is a service that costs money, something the Government does not have they have to take it. If it wasn't for the Gov. getting involved and the Fed then the cost of healthcare would still be affordable. We the people can run this country better than they can, the free market and sound money would keep the cost down, bring jobs and more prosperity to fix these issues.

[hotroddy74]

@Activeassholeonpills No you don't. All you know is what you are told, you do not know why about all of that. What country do you live in? What was it that made our country great? What is it that is destroying our country? Learn true history you will see that the super powers do not like Liberty and why.

[Activeassholeonpills]

@hotroddy74 Actually, we do understand the 'great' results that come from the application of Dr. Paul's notion of 'true' liberty. We have plenty of examples of failure throughout the world in the last half of the Twentieth Century alone. New Zealand in the 1970s, the UK under Thatcher, Chile during the 1970s, South Africa in the early 1990s, and let's not forget the failed attempt at libertopia with the whole Republic of Minerva debacle. Take your pick!

[Activeassholeonpills]

The screwed up expression on Rand Paul's face towards the end spoke volumes about his disdain for human rights beyond simple property rights. Any philosophy whose notion of rights is anchored over whether or not you have a huge pile of assets laying around is a philosophy devoid of human decency and can have no substantive dog in the debate regarding human rights.