To me, a “right” is something that the government can not take from me. These rights are free for me to exercise as long as they don’t infring upon someone elses rights.

To Hillary Clinton, a right is something that the government owes you…and by government…she means your fellow citizens. She gave a speech in Puerto Rico saying that health care is a “moral right”. If you see health care as a “moral right” then it make sense that pandering to Puerto Rican makes sense (at least in the primaries).

But this pandering goes way beyond effecting Puerto Ricans. If health care is a “moral right”, then we must provided health care to illegal immigrants as well. How long before this misguided policy opens up the flood gates to even more illegals?

Making health care a “right” will totally swamp the government with health care costs? Once the government realizes that universal health care is unaffordable, they are not going to admit their mistake and end it. They will ration it. Patient will be denied services, or as in Canada, you will have to wait months or years for some procedures.

Many will die waiting for treatment. Those who die will have their right to live supplanted by the greater good of universal health care.  Those who place the ”greater good” above the individual sound like communists and facists. They scares the hell out of me.

Once the government is paying for your medical bills, they will soon follow up with rules on how to live your life. You can see this already with tobacco restrictions. We are beginning to see it with food restrictions (ban on transfat). How long before the government says that football causes increased medical bills and that tickets to the game require an additional tax? Universal health care is a doorway for the government to have a say in all aspects of your life.

If we redefine what a “right” is…how long before we have a “right” to a home, a “right” to a job, a “right” to all sorts of priorities set by liberals. Does this seem far fetched? It’s not. In 1944, the liberal hero Franklin Roosevelt proposed these “rights” in a Second Bill of Rights (LINK)

In the end, redefining rights in the liberal vision will override all other rights. You will be granted your “moral right” to health care but have to give up some many more that it won’t be worth it.

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