#9

All across America people are either taking advantage of our right or trying to take our rights away. In America we are promised a few things. Things like to be protected.  However, no where does it say that we are promised healthcare. In our government class we have spent the last trying to decide if healthcare is a right or privilege.

No the Declaration in Independence does not guarantee that we will receive healthcare. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." No where in there does it say to me that we are guaranteed healthcare. The DOI just says that you are promised to be happy.

"We the people of the  United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
This is still not saying that they will provide you with healthcare. While what your welfare is can be taken in many different ways. To me healthcare is not taken as part of this.

"We the people of Montana grateful to God for the quiet beauty of our state, the grandeur of our mountains, the vastness of our rolling plains, and desiring to improve the quality of life..." To me still not promising healthcare. To me healthcare is not one of life's basic necessities. However, on the other side of the argument some people may think of it in that way and make.  Healthcare is not one of life's necessities because we can technically go without it.

Napolitano and Cannon both argue that healthcare if not require. They agree with me in the fact that is not in the constitution. They also believe in the fact that it is not a promise of life. No where in life is it promised that you will receive healthcare.

Sanghoee, Bigby, and Pham were on the opposite side of the argument. They feel that healthcare is a privilege. If it is  not mentioned in the constitution when Obama was elected he make it a right. With the Obama Care stuff going on right now that made it a right. Everyone is required to have health insurance. If an individual does not have health insurance then they  are fined. These particular people feel that with lower healthcare costs we will see an increase in people going to the doctor. People will be more willing to go if they can afford it rather than waiting too long to go in.

We have spend time looking at both sides of the argument. I feel that healthcare is a privilege and not a right. While Obama is trying to make healthcare more affordable he is still not making it a right. He is making it more of a right then it was before but I still do not feel that it a right. A right is something that  just comes to you. As Americans we have the right to work, we have the right to practice our own religion, we  have the right to be who we want to be. We do not have the right to healthcare. No where in America are we promised to healthcare. Yes it is provided, but no one is going to make you go and you are not going to get in trouble for not going. Not a single document that founded our country or our state for that matter promises you that you will have healthcare.