Well folks, the time has come for me to hang up the virtual hammer and pick up a real one. My family and I have some positive opportunities that will require blood, sweat and tear equity to bring to fruition and as I am sure you have noticed -my posts have been sporadic and half-assed at best.
If I can't commit the time to do it right, I'll commit no time at all. Thanks for stopping by and good luck to you.
Keep your powder dry,
Alan
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Universal Health Care Part II
In continuing from my previous post concerning Universal Health Care, I want to quickly post my views from a philosophical standpoint and question how Universal Health Care relates to a moral principle.
Back to my dictionary moral is defined as – “1. Relating to, concerned with, the difference between right and wrong in matters of conduct” skipping down to “3. Teaching, inculcating, principles of good conduct; proper, seemly...”
To consider if Universal Health Care is a moral principle, we have to look at what it is, how it's derived and finally how it is applied. Universal Health Care, even to a slow redneck, appears to be health care for all. Every man, woman, and child would be provided the benefit of well, health care. We have to draw some correlation to the benefit and a moral tenet. Is it proper and correct that every living, breathing, human be afforded health care? Is health care a right? Are we entitled? Is it Life, Liberty, the pursuit of happiness and free medicine for all who can't buy it on their own? Do you have a right to what you can earn? If you can't or won't earn it, shouldn't you have to depend on whatever charity and good will you can find? Why not Universal Food Care, Universal Habitat, Universal Transportation?
Let's talk about the means to provide Universal Health Care. I won't go into specifics on the financial ramifications of providing this “benefit”; at least not in this installment. How would the government provide Universal Health Care? It has to cost something, where does the money come from? Who pays and who rides for free? Does compulsory enrollment sound unequivocally moral? How about dispensation of entitlements through additional taxation? Is it moral to take from one who has and give to another who hasn't?
So let me see if I have the supporting structures of this moral principle straight. Mandatory enrollment; artificial price controls; those that do pay into the system pay on a sliding scale – the more successful pay more. Am I missing the boat here? How does making slaves of the working class, suppressing a free market, and punishing some of the brightest minds in the world equate to anything moral?
Back to my dictionary moral is defined as – “1. Relating to, concerned with, the difference between right and wrong in matters of conduct” skipping down to “3. Teaching, inculcating, principles of good conduct; proper, seemly...”
To consider if Universal Health Care is a moral principle, we have to look at what it is, how it's derived and finally how it is applied. Universal Health Care, even to a slow redneck, appears to be health care for all. Every man, woman, and child would be provided the benefit of well, health care. We have to draw some correlation to the benefit and a moral tenet. Is it proper and correct that every living, breathing, human be afforded health care? Is health care a right? Are we entitled? Is it Life, Liberty, the pursuit of happiness and free medicine for all who can't buy it on their own? Do you have a right to what you can earn? If you can't or won't earn it, shouldn't you have to depend on whatever charity and good will you can find? Why not Universal Food Care, Universal Habitat, Universal Transportation?
Let's talk about the means to provide Universal Health Care. I won't go into specifics on the financial ramifications of providing this “benefit”; at least not in this installment. How would the government provide Universal Health Care? It has to cost something, where does the money come from? Who pays and who rides for free? Does compulsory enrollment sound unequivocally moral? How about dispensation of entitlements through additional taxation? Is it moral to take from one who has and give to another who hasn't?
So let me see if I have the supporting structures of this moral principle straight. Mandatory enrollment; artificial price controls; those that do pay into the system pay on a sliding scale – the more successful pay more. Am I missing the boat here? How does making slaves of the working class, suppressing a free market, and punishing some of the brightest minds in the world equate to anything moral?
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