I get a kick when I hear people ask the question if having health care is the moral thing to do. This question is usually asked by a person who has lost the economic argument and falls back on the moral issue. It usually starts with, "Is health care a right or a priviliege?" that then leads to the aforementioned question.
First off, Health Care is a right. Without health care a person loses their life which is guaranteed in the
Declaration of Independence. However, does this mean it is the Government's responsibility to provide this? I say no. The responsibility for health care rests on the shoulders of Individual Americans. It is the Father, Husband, Mother, or Wife that has the responsibility to take care of their family's health the way they see fit. If a young working American decides that health care insurance or other programs are low on their priority list then so be it. It is their choice. It is their responsibility when something goes wrong. Yes, if they do have to go in for major surgury and they lack the money to do so, we all pay the price. That being said, what would the price be for added levels of governmental control and bureacracy?
The true moral question here is, "is it moral to take from one person living up to their responsibilities, and giving to another who has decided to not be responsibile?" With rights come responsibilities. To shirk those responsibilities is to negate your own rights. This country was founded on an idea of indiviualism. To force the collective to pay for the individual violates that idea. Worse, it leads us down a path of self-destruction. It is the individual's responsibility to provide charity not the government's. Charity is exactly what this government run system would be.
A government provided health care plan (insurance) will bankrupt us economically and morally. The argument for government run health care is based on intentional deceipt and receptive ignorance. It is something that sounds compassionate. It sounds good. Yet in the end, it will be a catastrophe. Can anyone name one government run program that makes money or is truly affective? We constantly hear people screaming about how politicians are liars, cheats, and self-serving yet these same people want these same politicians to decide whats good for their inddividual lives.
There was a reason why Barack Obama couldn't answer the question in regards to if he was able to afford the proper care for his family member would he go outside the government system? The answer is of course he would. Otherwise, he wouldn't be living up to his responsibility as a family member. So in the grand scheme, Barack Obama is a hypocrite.
Isn't it also funny that all these people speaking out in public about a government run health care plan all have enough money to take care of themselves outside of a government system?
No. A government run health care plan is not the moral thing to do. In the end it will harm more people than it helps. Though, in Marxist ideology this passes as acceptable.