The best speech you can read to equip yourself on the healthcare debate is “Healthcare Is Not A Right” by Leonard Peikoff:
…if your mere desire for something, anything, imposes a duty on other people to satisfy you, then they have no choice in their lives, no say in what they do, they have no liberty, they cannot pursue their happiness. Your “right” to happiness at their expense means that they become rightless serfs, i.e., your slaves. Your right to anything at others’ expense means that they become rightless.
The Wizard called in to say that some in his profession are thinking of striking. Then more doctors called in. Here is the 7:30 segment:
2 Comments
July 7, 2009 at 2:43 pm
If nurses strike they lose their license to practice, so I don’t imagine they will.
August 19, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Wrong Kyle;
Nurses can strike, they have done it before at the local level, but never at the national level. Most of the time a nurse’s strike is so terrifying to the opposing side they role over, and give in to the nurse’s with out a fight. More over if their is a national nurse strike, and your dream defense of pulling their license comes true, how do we replace the million or so nurses that lost their licenses? Come back to reality please.
And my 2cents on health care as a right.
“One American’s View On Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit of Happiness, In The Context Of The Health Care Debate
Life – The inalienable human right to live. All those who live seek to live seek health, for they inseparable, and interdependent.
Liberty – The inalienable right to freedom. While no person has the right to live shamelessly, the heavy, solid, chains of debt should not be incurred for the simple act of living, and seeking health.
The Pursuit of Happiness – Happiness becomes impossible to obtain in a system where both life, and liberty are held for ransom. It becomes both the duty of the citizen, and his duly elected government, to right the system, and put both back in the hands of the people.”