Health Care is a right

Please don't continue thinking an iPod=wealth. It could have been a gift, a donation, a well placed advertisement, it may have even been placed by the news crew as a prop in order to stir controversy, who knows.

What ever the case, don't you think that if one child gets cancer therapy, shouldn't all???

The access to free health care is not a legal right at this time, BUT that does not mean that it wont be some time in the future.

Here is my state's , health care proposal, which by the way, states that health care access is a RIGHT ;
http://www.dhfs.state.wi.us/HealthyW...f/proposal.pdf

The current system is definatly not perfect, but I do not see people dying on the streets because they cannot afford healthcare, I see them dying because they do not consider it a responsibility to access the services available.

Heres a possibility , you have a new grad in their first job , so income is relatively low , they have to prioiritize how they spend their income ; food and / or housing ( a definite need) versus healthcare premium ( a responsibility ,but because they are young and healthy , they do not feel it's a need ).

You may not think people are dying on the streets because they cannot afford healthcare , they are , they may be able to access emergent care , but not on going care . Or given the choice of how they allocate their small income they , view the risk of needing healthcare as low , only, unfortunately to have a problem which ends with them in the ER. From our perspective , their choices may be poor , but if we walked intheir shoes , maybe we would have made the same decisions .

We have had to mandate seatbelt usage. Why not health insurance?

no one is dying in the streets except by choice and yes it does come down to priorities. Absolutely agreed , the problem is how do you make those who CHOOSE ( I do not include those who are too limited in financial or any other resource , in this catagory ) not to make provision for theirhealthcare ,when they could , but run the risk in any case? Perhaps wait to buy the brand new car after graduation or get a roommate or don't rack up the credit card charges. This notion that all these young people are just out there dying is devoid of reality True , but also the notion that the majority of the uninsured driving around in new cars , living in mansions with maxed out credit cardsis equally devoid of reality , a large number had insurance , lost it when they got sick and are no longer able to get coverage due to pre existing conditions . Especially the notion that everything is just hunky dory because you have health insurance.Again far from it ,because the insurance will desert you as quick as they can if they can find a way to drop you .

"Ignorance, the most expensive commodity we pay for in this country!" Rush Limbaugh