Wed, 10/08/2008 - 7:55am — lambert
(Transcript.)
Good. One question:
Why are you treating a right like a commodity?
Trella: Senator, selling health care coverage in America as the marketable commodity has become a very profitable industry.
Do you believe health care should be treated as a commodity?
Fight your way through Obama's word fog in answer, and you'll see he doesn't answer the question.
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Words have consequences
the more he says that health care is a right, the closer we get to HR 676.
I agree
So, you might think of this post as a first step on that road.
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"should be" a right ?
he's not saying it is a right (which is what the question actually was--not about what it should be)
According to the Constitution, we all already have all sorts of rights--it's not about whether something should be a right or not, but about enjoying and exercising those rights we already have, and may or may not be currently prevented from enjoying and benefiting from.
No one can actually make something a right. The history of our country is that more and more of us get to actually exercise the rights we all already have--but were denied the expression and use of (see citizenship, voting, privacy, equal protection, etc).
A law professor should know that--you'd think.