Paul argued that if you believe people should have a right to health care, you believe in enslaving doctors, nurses, and hospital janitors:PAUL: With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. It means that you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses.
Basically, once you imply a belief in a right to someone’s services — do you have a right to plumbing? Do you have a right to water? Do you have right to food? — you’re basically saying you believe in slavery.
I’m a physician in your community and you say you have a right to health care. You have a right to beat down my door with the police, escort me away and force me to take care of you? That’s ultimately what the right to free health care would be.
“I quit when medicine was placed under State control some years ago,” said Dr. Hendricks. “Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill? That was what I could not place at the disposal of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward. I observed that in all the discussions that preceded the enslavement of medicine, men discussed everything—except the desires of the doctors. Men considered only the ‘welfare’ of the patients, with no thought for those who were to provide it. That a doctor should have any right, desire or choice in the matter, was regarded as irrelevant selfishness; his is not to choose, they said, but ‘to serve.’ That a man’s willing to work under compulsion is too dangerous a brute to entrust with a job in the stockyards—never occurred to those who proposed to help the sick by making life impossible for the healthy. I have often wondered at the smugness at which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind—yet what is it they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands? Their moral code has taught them to believe that it is safe to rely on the virtue of their victims. Well, that is the virtue I have withdrawn. Let them discover the kind of doctors that their system will now produce. Let them discover, in the operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man they have throttled. It is not safe, if he is the sort of man who resents it—and still less safe, if he is the sort who doesn’t.”posted by Trurl at 12:24 PM on May 12, 2011 [14 favorites]
In recognition of his outstanding and sustained efforts to provide vision care to Kentuckians in need, Lions Clubs International has awarded Rand many of its highest commendationsposted by filthy light thief at 12:46 PM on May 12, 2011
- Melvin Jones Fellow Award for Dedicated Humanitarian Services, Lions Club International Foundation
- Lion of the Year Award, Bowling Green Lions
- President’s Award, Bowling Green Lions
- Fines E. Davis Fellow Award for Dedicated Humanitarian Service, Kentucky Lions Eye Foundation
- Governors Appreciation Award for Sight Conservation, Lions Club International
With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician.He's a joke, what he's saying borders on absurdest humor, and it should be treated as such.[laughter]That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me.[longer laughter]It means you believe in slavery .[uproarious laughter]It means that you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurse[howling laughter]... etc.
So this is really not that crazy in the context of his beliefs.I'm pretty convinced that Gene Ray genuinely believes in "4 corner
the government really cannot establish a fundamental right to health care
We don't have a right to healthcare. But we damn sure ought to strive to provide it.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.posted by kirkaracha at 6:57 PM on May 12, 2011 [3 favorites]
Rand Paul are here. I am here. But soon, Rand Paul will not be here.The Dread Pirate Socialism has come for your souuulllllls!
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Wow wow wow.
Poor doctors!
posted by entropone at 11:58 AM on May 12, 2011 [14 favorites]