Health Care is a right

[headsup]

I would do a poll on this, but I do not know how to - or maybe you need to be a premium member.

At any rate, I would like to hear some discussion on whether you feel health care is a right or not.

I personally do.

[pickledpepperRN]

I think these and other corporations should be required to provide the healthcare their customers already paid for. Pay and pay, month after month. Year after year. And then be denied just when you are sick and unable to think.

Why can't we even get them to keep their promises?

http://www.bcchealthplans.com/index.php?dname=bccsem.com&roiid=3144

http://p.kaiser-permanente.org/m/p/kp/QHealthCare.html

http://www.aetna.com/members/individuals/index.html?gclid=CKvU5-HTho0CFRK1YgodpxmjoQ

http://www.assuranthealth.com/corp/ah/HealthPlans/GetAHealthInsuranceQuoteNow

http://askoleg.com/pacificare_california_instant_quote_california.htm

http://www.healthplans.us.com/

http://xnet.kp.org/experience/html/index.html

[pickledpepperRN]

HEALTH PLAN TO COMPENSATE CONSUMERS AND HOSPITALS FOR ILLEGALLY DENIED CLAIMS

Blue Cross to Review More Than 25,000 Emergency Room Claims: http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2001/jul/jul26a_01.html

State fines Blue Cross $200,000: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/09/22/BUGF1LA7D41.DTL&type=business

...I had a necessary surgery denied by Blue Cross. I personally paid the Columbia Missouri based provider to protect my credit. I sent my case through the MO State Dept. of Insurance which ruled that the claim was denied incorrectly and finally(after two years) Blue Cross paid their share....: http://www.boonvilledailynews.com/articles/2007/06/28/news/news3.txt

[Bizara7]

If it isn't a right then perhaps we should start trading it on the NASDAQ.... oh wait thats already happening.

[HM2VikingRN, RN]

[PHC]

I certainly believe health care should be a right not a privilege. Every American citizen should not have to make a career choice based on what type of health benefits they will receive or decide on whether they should go to the doctor because of fears of financial burdens.

[BahoRN]

Is health care a fundamental human right regardless of ones' finances?

[travellingsuitcase]

It should be !!!!!

[BahoRN]

Very clear & most succinct, check out this clip...The best argument for health care reform I've heard.

Share it with others, please!!!

[Commanderzoom]

Of course it is. Everyone has the right to health care, regardless of what politians may think.

[HonestRN]

Universal access to quality health care is the only humane and civilized approach we should expect from a wealthy, industrialized nation.

[holly1028]

I think everybody should have access to quality health care. The one thing I think people should have to cover themselves would be diseases that they brought upon themselves (drug/alcohol abuse).

[Commanderzoom]

I think everybody should have access to quality health care. The one thing I think people should have to cover themselves would be diseases that they brought upon themselves (drug/alcohol abuse).

Your statement ignores the reality that people tend to be alcoholics or drug addicts due to an underlying mental illness. That's hardly "bringing it upon themselves".