r/LinkedInLunatics 2d ago

Healthcare is not a human right

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u/DangersoulyPassive 2d ago

We have a right that our tax dollars protect us. Part of that is available, affordable healthcare. Just like every other country provides its citizens and they consider that a right. Tough titties if you disagree.

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u/Robie_John 2d ago

Tell that to the doctors and nurses who have to provide the care. Making it a right means they have to treat you. What about their rights?

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u/wildjackalope 2d ago

Insurance companies literally tell nurses and doctors what to do now, along with admins and current law. This isn’t the slam dunk you think it is.

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u/Robie_John 2d ago

Insurance companies determine if they are going to pay for it or not; you can still get the treatment.

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u/Niarbeht 2d ago

You pay for insurance, insurance denies coverage that’s spelled out as their obligation in the contract you both agreed to.

You will die before they actually pay out, though.

So, y’know, health insurance is a scam.

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u/Robie_John 2d ago

I agree with you there. 

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u/wildjackalope 2d ago

For the bulk of us, we very much can not get the treatment at that point. That's pretty much, ya' know, the point of the post.

There's also plenty of cases where what you state simply isn't true. I just watched my mother-in-law get discharged from hospital despite her doctor wanting to keep her for another 48 hours. Insurance didn't want to pay for that, so hospital admins made the decision to discharge her. Doctors didn't.

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u/Robie_John 2d ago

Well in that case, you just had a shitty doctor. No one can discharge patients except physicians. Admin can pressure physicians, but ultimately they make the decision.

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u/wildjackalope 1d ago

Doctor was very good, actually. If he would have thought she would have died, sure, we would have stayed. How long do you think doctors that repeatedly clash with admins stay around?

You won’t even address the first point. You’re clueless.

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u/Robie_John 1d ago

In regard to the first point, I am 100% in favor of some sort of universal healthcare for the United States. Our current system is a total shit show.

Good doctors that clash with the administration stick around a long time.

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u/wildjackalope 1d ago

You sure don’t sound like you are based on your previous comments and I have zero faith that you have the experience dealing with hospital admin to state that as fact.

You’re just chirping to chirp man.

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u/Robie_John 1d ago

I have been in hospital administration for over 14 years. I am currently an executive for a large academic health system. I know what I am discussing. 

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u/DangersoulyPassive 2d ago

Next time you lose power remind the lineman he doesn't have to restore power if he doesn't want to.

You are super smart, dude.

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u/Robie_John 2d ago

I have no right to electrical power.

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u/DangersoulyPassive 2d ago

Huh? You have no right to something you pay for????????????? Dude. Dude? Dude???

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u/GeekShallInherit 2d ago

Making it a right means they have to treat you.

No it doesn't, at all. In theory nor reality. Where do so many people get this nonsense?

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u/Robie_John 2d ago edited 2d ago

Something cannot be a “right“ if it requires other people to make it happen. 

How is the right to healthcare protected if there are no doctors and nurses? 

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u/TheEnlightenedPanda 2d ago

Is education a right in your country?

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u/Robie_John 2d ago

I do not believe there is any inherent right to an education. 

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u/TheEnlightenedPanda 2d ago

In that case, there's no inherent right to anything which civilised society didn't agree upon for themselves.

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u/GeekShallInherit 2d ago

Something cannot be a “right“ if it requires other people to make it happen. 

Again, you're inventing a definition of human rights much of the rest of the world doesn't agree with.

How is the right to healthcare protected if there are no doctors and nurses?

Again, believing something is a "human right" doesn't really change anything. Perhaps you're confusing human rights with legal rights? Regardless, if there were no doctors and nurses society would be failing to provide those rights. Just as they sometimes fail to protect (or even acknowledge) negative rights you might believe in.

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u/Robie_John 2d ago

“Society” can’t provide healthcare. Only people can provide healthcare. 

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u/GeekShallInherit 2d ago

And? Society can absolutely pay people to provide healthcare. My girlfriend is a public defender. That is a Constitutionally protected right in the US. Society pays her to provide that right. My ex wife is a public school teacher in a state that has Constitutionally protected primary education. She is paid to provide that right. I don't think you understand how any of this works.

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u/LetsGetElevated 2d ago

Society and people are the same thing, you are basically disagreeing with yourself

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u/Robie_John 2d ago

Nope, only trained individuals can provide healthcare. I should’ve stated individuals instead of people. My point is in order to have healthcare, you require something not of society, but of individuals who have trained to provide that healthcare. At what point does the right of the person to receive healthcare trump the rights of individuals to choose whether or not to provide that healthcare? Can the government force individuals to provide healthcare?

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u/_dotMonkey 2d ago

? That's their job? It's what they're paid to do? What is your point exactly?

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u/Lower_Amount3373 Agree? 2d ago

You're going with the "doing the job you spent years studying for is against your rights" argument?