Ben Stein Comes Out Against Socialized Health Care
These Rights Don't Come for Free
by Ben Stein
The Internet is an amazing learning tool. Sometimes it is so amazing it simply smacks you right between the eyes, like getting hit with a two-by-four.
A short while ago, I said in a public forum that while I did not doubt that in a society as rich as ours, no one should be denied health care, and that health care was a right, I still had some questions about the administration's plan. This had been my feeling for all of my life, i.e., that health care was a right, and that if necessary, it must be paid for by the taxpayers if some people could not afford it.
Then, a letter showed up in my email from a man with the pen name of a famous Roman writer and thinker. The correspondent asked a few simple questions: Why should everyone be guaranteed free health care? And if we guaranteed to people goods and services they could not afford, where would it ever end? Where would it end short of assuming that everyone has a right to everyone else's property and labor?
Ben's not that smart...
health-care is a right? Um, ya, okay, Ben, according to which theory of rights? The theory that rights are granted by the State, yes?
Uh, atrickpay, did you read his full article?
It doesn't really sound like you did...
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No, I didn't.
I just read the first little blurb, where he said that healthcare is a right. I ceased reading his garbage at that point.
But, in looking at it again, I see that he seems to have changed his mind.
Even a stopped clock...
Good for Ben that he got this right, but he's still an idiot, and not someone who can help the cause.
-jcr
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I don't care for Ben Stein
but I do agree with him on this.
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I don't either, that's why I posted this.
Even HE disagrees. I don't believe that even a simple majority of Americans wants Government health care.
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