Comments on: Why I am a Liberal Christian http://www.manchicken.com/2008/politics/why-i-am-a-liberal-christian.html Rantings of a Questionably Sane Chicken Mon, 10 May 2010 05:45:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: manchicken http://www.manchicken.com/2008/politics/why-i-am-a-liberal-christian.html/comment-page-1#comment-1764 manchicken Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:26:48 +0000 http://www.manchicken.com/?p=225#comment-1764 Tim: I'm sorry, at which point did I say that things were free? I think you missed my point... not everybody will require healthcare services at the same time. Most modern industrialized countries actually consider healthcare a fundamental right already and they haven't had this problem. They've only had long waiting lists for elective procedures. Tim: I’m sorry, at which point did I say that things were free? I think you missed my point… not everybody will require healthcare services at the same time. Most modern industrialized countries actually consider healthcare a fundamental right already and they haven’t had this problem. They’ve only had long waiting lists for elective procedures.

]]> By: Tim http://www.manchicken.com/2008/politics/why-i-am-a-liberal-christian.html/comment-page-1#comment-1763 Tim Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:36:59 +0000 http://www.manchicken.com/?p=225#comment-1763 > I believe that quality universal healthcare to the best of current scientific capability is a fundamental human right, and not a privilege. Given a hypothetical world where this is true, and there are 1,000,000 doctors in the world, what happens when 2,000,000 people need a doctor at the same time? Half of them are having their fundamental human rights violated. Obviously this example is oversimplified and silly, but the point is that medical resources are finite, and the demand for valuable things that are offered for free will always outpace the supply. Who is the rights violator that gets punished when people don't get their medical care? > I believe that quality universal healthcare to the best of current scientific capability is a fundamental human right, and not a privilege.

Given a hypothetical world where this is true, and there are 1,000,000 doctors in the world, what happens when 2,000,000 people need a doctor at the same time? Half of them are having their fundamental human rights violated. Obviously this example is oversimplified and silly, but the point is that medical resources are finite, and the demand for valuable things that are offered for free will always outpace the supply. Who is the rights violator that gets punished when people don’t get their medical care?

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