Sanders Logic: Being Human
Creates a Right to Healthcare, But Not to Life by Dr. Michael
Bauman, 3/11/16
Bernie Sanders says
that all persons have a right to health care because they are human beings. But
as a pro-abortion advocate, Sanders won’t say that they have a right to life
because of their humanity.
Think about that:
To Sanders, your humanity guarantees you health care, but not life. But
unless you are alive, of course, you have no need of health care, so your
rights in this regard are simply irrelevant. As a human being, you have no
claim to life, only to health care. In fact, in Bernie’s world, the health care
to which you are entitled as a human being might possibly be used to end your
life.
Our health care system
kills thousands of us human beings every day — because humans have no right to
life, only to health care.
Socialism is the death
of reason and of babies. No doubt you think of 9/11 as a great tragedy.
It was. But we lose more human lives to abortion every day than we
lost on 9/11. The health care to which you have a right is more deadly every
day than terrorists at their worst.
If you have a right to
health care, then you are, in principle, entitled to command doctors to do for
you what you wish to have done and to do it for free. If you cannot pay for it,
you still have a right to it. A right does not depend upon your ability to pay;
it’s a right. Your right to free speech does not depend upon your ability to
pay. It’s a right. It’s free. Use right now, if you wish. That’s how rights
work.
In other words, if you
have a right to health care, you have a right to make doctors your slaves. You
do not have to pay them. You can’t be refused your rights because of money and
you can’t be refused your rights because of peoples’ reluctance to comply with
them. If you have a right, they have a responsibility. They must serve your
needs. They cannot suspend your rights at will. That is not their prerogative.
Your rights are exercised at your discretion, not someone else’s. They are YOUR
rights.
Do you have a right to
food? Does a restaurant have an obligation to serve your rights whether or not
you pay, or, might they refuse, if they wish, to meet your rights to food? Can
you command them to supply you food as your right, like you command doctors
regarding your right to health care? If you have a right to food, must a
grocery store give you food if you invoke your right to it? Are your rights to
be suspended at will by other citizens?
If freedom of speech
is a right, you cannot be refused it. If self-defense is a right, you cannot be
refused it. If health care is a right, you cannot be refused it. If food is a
right, you cannot be refused it. Rights are legitimate and irrefutable claims.
To be straight-forward
with you, I deny that you have a right to health care or to food. You are free
to purchase a health worker’s work, if you and the health worker agree on the
service and the price; and you are free to purchase food, if you and the grocer
agree on the items and the price. But you have no right simply to demand such
things from others. They are your fellow citizens, not your slaves.
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