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1. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

   37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism

   This group (or at least this thread) on this forum is not for social networking. We are discussion a serious topic, concerning one of the largest segments of our economy, and its policies have serious implications. Rather than attacking me and callin...

2. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

   37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism

   Let's see what it costs to live in Florida. The base sales tax rate is 6%, plus counties add more on top of that, and there are taxes aimed at tourists on top of that. You pay a 6% sales tax on automobiles. It doesn't matter how little you earn. You ...

3. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

   37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism

   Yes, we really should. I became more interested in the nuts and bolts of the system when a participated in a patient advocacy program. Physicians organizations get involved in the political process. There could be more participation in the process fr...

4. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

   37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism

   No, I was implying that a nurse doesn't have much access to health care economics, etc. on the job, unless they chose to pursue it, and I explicitly said that undergraduate nursing education focuses little on the subject, though at the graduate level...

5. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

   37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism

   Based on objective measures, such as the WHO's, that is true. It's been true for a number of years. (Digression: Look at the rapid progress they made in hand washing a few years ago. Within a year, they had a very high level of conformance. Compare t...

6. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

   37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism

   This is to realmaninuniform, who was obsessing over the question: It is irrelevant. You need to not worry about the person, and refining your ad hominem attacks, and concern yourself more with the argument at hand. Focus on the facts, the claims, and...

7. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

   37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism

   A state failed at implementing universal health coverage, so therefore, universal health coverage is impossible? Tell that to every other industrialized nation. And tell it to Massachusetts, which has had for the past six years something very close t...

8. Talked out of nursing by others and myself....

   37 °C replied to radicalsenseofhope's topic in Pre-Nursing

   You home school a 10- and 12-year-old? Who does the instructing? If you do, there it seems impractical for you to pursue a degree full-time. And you won't be cut much slack if you have to deal with child issues (illness, etc.). There are many things ...

9. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

   37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism

   Back to the original topic... To those who who argue for the existence of natural rights, either derived from nature or a spiritual source: You must start with axioms. Those axioms cannot be logically derived. Slavery and its like has been seen throu...

10. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism

    According to your religion, unregulated enterprise will always do the best things for the citizenry — what's best for GM is best for the country. Their fiduciary responsibility, as private corporations, is to their shareholders. That is it. If they c...

11. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism

    You really love those anecdotes. Yours is a straw man. Why don't you compare the the healtcare systems of industrialized countries to ours? Look at their per capita costs, outcomes, and accesiblilty. I hope you realize that the U.S.S.R. went out of e...

12. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism

    No, my scholarly friend, you are prejudiced. You said this: Do you deny saying that? What percentage of the uninsured do you think are the working poor, who can't qualify for Medicaid? As soon as you have a McJob, you're on your own. You are a bigo...

13. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism

    Please go back to page 18 and look at the list. There are 48 countries ahead of the U.S., among them Cuba, Germany, France, Spain, and Canada. Can you explain how the size of the country itself causes our infant mortality rate to be higher (in some c...

14. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism

    If you're such a scholar, then you know that your personal experience, anecdotes, and prejudices don't cut it. That is all you've presented. You still haven't put up a single reference to back up any of your opinions. It sounds like you haven't read ...

15. Healthcare is NOT a basic human right.

    37 °C replied to Asystole RN's topic in Activism

    What they usually don't want to recognize that that we can't afford our current system, universal care works well or extremely well (compared to ours) in other industrialized nations, and we already are paying — a lot — for the uninsured. The result ...