Archive for October, 2008

The Real Reason Americans Have a Right to Healthcare

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

In recent posts (here, here and here), DrRich has considered the legitimacy and the implications of our recently-announced right to healthcare.
In one of those “meditations” DrRich decided that declaring healthcare to be a right is indeed legitimate, but not because it is the only humane thing to do, or because there is some sort of […]

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Why Conservatives Shouldn’t Sweat Our New Right to Healthcare

Monday, October 27th, 2008

In response to a couple of recent posts (here and here) defending the declaration by President-Nearly-Elect Obama that healthcare is a right, several readers have offered comments indicating that simply declaring healthcare to be a right is not very useful, unless you also clearly say what you mean by “healthcare.”
This is indeed the question. Exactly […]

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More Implications of Our Right to Healthcare

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Last week, DrRich defended Mr. Obama’s recent declaration that healthcare is a right.  DrRich’s defense was not based on the idea that awarding Americans a right to healthcare is inherently a proper and necessary thing to do, or that a right to healthcare is one of those natural, God-given rights we Americans used to celebrate […]

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Healthcare Is a Right If the Authority Says It Is

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

DrRich has been traveling, so he is late to comment on the presidential debate last week in which our presumptive next President declared that healthcare is a right for all Americans. (In contrast, Mr. McCain said healthcare is merely a responsibility, but since he’s only a Senator we can safely discount his opinion on the […]

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Good Debt and Bad Debt

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

So the House passed the bailout bill after all, and, we are told, as a result we will avoid the worst that our current financial crisis had to offer.  DrRich has mixed feelings about this outcome, having decided that nothing short of another Great Depression would finally shake us out of the fiscal habits we […]

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