Health care, a right or a privilege?
Rights and Privilege, what do they mean? What is the accepted definition of the two words? A right is a moral or legal entitlement to have or do something. A privilege is a special right, advantage, or immunity for a particular person. To me, a right is something you are born with, like the right to live life how you want it or do what you want while abiding by the laws or freedom of religion, speech and press. A privilage is something you have to earn or work for, behaving approprietly or following the laws, not just given to you. As society today is growing more and more, people are becoming more and more greedy, lazy or wanting the good things in life handed to them, with no effort on their part. My health care is given to me from my parents who work hard to have the privalege to be under a good insurence company, it is not given to them becuase they needed it but because they work for it.
As for the four opinions from the book "Universal Health Care", two said it was a right and the other two said it was a privilage. I agree with Peikoff because of several statements he said in his artical. He state "we are not born with the trip to disneyland, or a meal at McDonalds,...", this is absolutly true, yes we have the freedom to go to Disneyworld but you have to earn money to be able to go and then you can have the privilage to go. Now, sometimes a person may win a trip to the magical kingdom, well that just luck or maybe a parent has a dying child and the make a wish foundation gives the family a trip, that was through a strenous trial of pain and eventually death that a family like that is able to go. Going to disneyland is not a right but a privilage. In Creech's article he uses the bible and what it says as a means to defend universal healthcare being wrong. He states that the bible discourages economic systems that construct dependence or reward sloth. He even quoptes a bible verse backing up his opinion, Thessalonions 3:10. He makes a point that a universal government healthcare system is a form of socialised medicine and destroy professional freedom for medical proffesions and since I am in the medical field, i agree with him.Also with the point he makes about the quality of health care lessen when the government has to make healthcare affordable and mandatory for everyone.
As for the other two articles I do not agree with them because they make the view of healthcare being affordable for everyone and it is a right. In Redmonds article, she states that people are not free with the healthcare system the way it is today. Like the mentally ill are not free becauss they are unable to get insurence and they end up in jail, or her statement "jails and prisons have become de facto psychiatric treatment facilities for the mentally ill. First of all this is a false statement, where are her facts or research. Jail and prisions are filled with people who either deserve to be in there for a crime they have commited or because they may cause a threat to others or themselves. In American today there are a number of facilities that help the mentally ill and or homeless for free, they just happen to have rules, sometimes strict rules that some choose not to follow. Now, yes some people with mental illnesses do have a mental illness that need help and cannot get it and this is obviuosly a matter needing a solution. as for the other article, by the Interfaith canter on Corporate Responsibility, "a call for accesible and affordable health care for all people in a just and compassionate healthcare system.....faith based investors believe it is in the economic intrest of companies....". Yes, we do need a just healthcare system but because people will take advantage of the system or abuse privilages or stretch the limits of their rights, a just and compassionate system is not a possibility. Healthcare that is affordable and comprehensive for everyone is not in the economys intrest, how is the government going to pay for the lower half of american that cannot afford it? Raise the taxes of the people who can, insurence companies raising premiums and deductiples, thus making healthcare unaffordable for for the higher margin.
The battle of healthcare will be a struggling battle for the years ahead, there will never be a perfect solution or a plan that makes everyone happy. No matter what is decided on or who think "this will work for everyone" they are all wrong. Making healthcare affordable for everyone or enabling everyone to get coverage is a double edged sword. Now, in my opinion a goverment involved healthcare or government run system is the absolute wrong path to go, the more the government gets theri head up everyone's butt, the less freedom we have as americans, next the government will draw our names out of a hat to decide what job we can have or what house we get to live in or even the food we eat. Healthcare is a privilager for the people who earn it, whether it is a sick or dying child, an elderly man who needs help, a war veteren needing care after fighting for our freedom, or a hard working american not sitting on there butts expecting soemone else to take care of them.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
GL 350 week uno
Italy, the trip of a life time and places not many people get to see. I get this opportunity and I will keep each moment and each new place we see forever a memory. Studying in Italy for the next two monthes is an opportunity I would have never been able to have and this is going to be an opportunity for me to grow as a person and succeed indepententy. As we get our week one schedual, the main sights are the Coliseum, Roman Forum, Campo de'Fiori, the jewish ghetto and several churches. With our schedule, we also recieved reading assingments to correspond with our daily sight seeing, interwoven into each other.
The first day we were off to the Coliseum and Roman Forum. The Coliseum was breathtaking, getting right off the subway, walking up a flight of stairs and there right in front of you is the mighty structure. When reading "Who killed Daisy Miller", in "The Smiles of Rome", we were given a little history of the Coliseum and a story about a woman, Daisy, who died from Malaria before seeing the Coliseum because the Coliseum and Roman Forum are bult on a marsh, but no longer that now a days. The Coliseum was bult by Emperor Vaspasion and ever since it was bult it is the 8th wonder of the world! As for the Roman forum, well for me it was just ruins, rocks and crumbled stone, nothing that caught my interest. There was a quote in "The Smiles of Rome" that I thought about when walking through the Roman Forum and also Palentine hill and most of Rome, "When we contemplate ruins, we contemplate our own future", eventually we all fall eventualy and some of us can leave impressions in the world and others do not. Like the Roman Forum or other famous ruins in Rome, they all fell but leave impressions every day the rumble is still there.
The rest of that week we were off the the Jewish Ghetto, an area that caught my eye and the history that caught my attention because of my brother being jewish. I was sure to get plenty of pictures of the ghetto to show him an area that can be considered apart of him. In Campo de' Fiori, well shops and merchants were every where, wanting to grab your attention and sell there wares to you. Which in my opinion most of the merchants were selling cheap wares not worth the money. In the Italians chapter 1, it talks about the italian charm, the city Rome in itself has a charm not felt any where else. The famous sights suck you in, draws your attention and when your attention is distracted, well your belongings become a pleasurable sight for the mischevious. "They are the first victims of the famous charm of Italy", this quote from the italians is pointed to tourists and it is far beyond a false statement. When our professors and guides take us to our daily sights, the new unfamilar famous surroundings captures your mind and charms you because these are things you have never seen before or cannot be replicated any where else in the world.
Towards, the end of the week we were able to visit this beautiful church that is not open to the public and also the baths of Cacacella. This church was historic and looked as if it was right out of a history book about churches. The artwork, paintings surrounding the walls and on the ceilings and just the good old fasion architecture, all marble floors, hand crafted and the atmosphere in general was captivating. The other part of that church was the catacombs that we were able to see, skulls real skulls used as the cross, as the light fiixtures and displayed all around the basement. Now, the Baths of Caracella, the image that came to mind for me was no where near the scale that my eyes saw. There were massive brick walls all around and even origianl mosaic tiles for the flooring still in tact. Thousands of people flocked to this sight in the days of old and it was more that enough space to hold that number of people. After I was able to see the ruins, I really could picture the baths, with pools to bath and excersise. The one thing that made me laugh, is that every time the tour guide would talk about the courts with excerising and activities going on, all I could think about was like a high school gym and a bastektball, which neither they had back then.
It is amazing to see how well the Italians maintain the beauty and historic atmosphere of the ruins around the city. For a moment you think your just riding a bus going through a city, which you are but then it is like a slap in the face when you ride by a set of ruins or a historic building with a crumbling structure being restored. Italy definetly has a certian charm that captures a toursit but unique to the surroudnings and in my opinion does not compare to going to New York or California. Rome is a beautful city and has a beautiful culture but why is a city reling so much on old ruins or crubling structures or a pretty flat of grass to make it what it is. All great things fall eventually, it is just a matter of time and when some of the famous sttructures fall, what are the Romans going to fall back on, more ruins?
The first day we were off to the Coliseum and Roman Forum. The Coliseum was breathtaking, getting right off the subway, walking up a flight of stairs and there right in front of you is the mighty structure. When reading "Who killed Daisy Miller", in "The Smiles of Rome", we were given a little history of the Coliseum and a story about a woman, Daisy, who died from Malaria before seeing the Coliseum because the Coliseum and Roman Forum are bult on a marsh, but no longer that now a days. The Coliseum was bult by Emperor Vaspasion and ever since it was bult it is the 8th wonder of the world! As for the Roman forum, well for me it was just ruins, rocks and crumbled stone, nothing that caught my interest. There was a quote in "The Smiles of Rome" that I thought about when walking through the Roman Forum and also Palentine hill and most of Rome, "When we contemplate ruins, we contemplate our own future", eventually we all fall eventualy and some of us can leave impressions in the world and others do not. Like the Roman Forum or other famous ruins in Rome, they all fell but leave impressions every day the rumble is still there.
The rest of that week we were off the the Jewish Ghetto, an area that caught my eye and the history that caught my attention because of my brother being jewish. I was sure to get plenty of pictures of the ghetto to show him an area that can be considered apart of him. In Campo de' Fiori, well shops and merchants were every where, wanting to grab your attention and sell there wares to you. Which in my opinion most of the merchants were selling cheap wares not worth the money. In the Italians chapter 1, it talks about the italian charm, the city Rome in itself has a charm not felt any where else. The famous sights suck you in, draws your attention and when your attention is distracted, well your belongings become a pleasurable sight for the mischevious. "They are the first victims of the famous charm of Italy", this quote from the italians is pointed to tourists and it is far beyond a false statement. When our professors and guides take us to our daily sights, the new unfamilar famous surroundings captures your mind and charms you because these are things you have never seen before or cannot be replicated any where else in the world.
Towards, the end of the week we were able to visit this beautiful church that is not open to the public and also the baths of Cacacella. This church was historic and looked as if it was right out of a history book about churches. The artwork, paintings surrounding the walls and on the ceilings and just the good old fasion architecture, all marble floors, hand crafted and the atmosphere in general was captivating. The other part of that church was the catacombs that we were able to see, skulls real skulls used as the cross, as the light fiixtures and displayed all around the basement. Now, the Baths of Caracella, the image that came to mind for me was no where near the scale that my eyes saw. There were massive brick walls all around and even origianl mosaic tiles for the flooring still in tact. Thousands of people flocked to this sight in the days of old and it was more that enough space to hold that number of people. After I was able to see the ruins, I really could picture the baths, with pools to bath and excersise. The one thing that made me laugh, is that every time the tour guide would talk about the courts with excerising and activities going on, all I could think about was like a high school gym and a bastektball, which neither they had back then.
It is amazing to see how well the Italians maintain the beauty and historic atmosphere of the ruins around the city. For a moment you think your just riding a bus going through a city, which you are but then it is like a slap in the face when you ride by a set of ruins or a historic building with a crumbling structure being restored. Italy definetly has a certian charm that captures a toursit but unique to the surroudnings and in my opinion does not compare to going to New York or California. Rome is a beautful city and has a beautiful culture but why is a city reling so much on old ruins or crubling structures or a pretty flat of grass to make it what it is. All great things fall eventually, it is just a matter of time and when some of the famous sttructures fall, what are the Romans going to fall back on, more ruins?
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