Listening to the Neal Boortz show the other night, I heard him ragging on liberals who have decided to boycott Whole Foods because of an editorial Whole Foods CEO John Mackey wrote in the Wall Street Journal where he stated that “universal healthcare is no more a right than food or shelter.” Boortz believes the [...]
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Elitist Views of the Health Care Crisis
Posted in Politics, Social Issues, opinion on Jun 25th, 2009
The other day, I had the misfortune to listen to Neal Boortz ranting about health care reform. Boortz believes that even employer-provided health insurance should be cut to the bone and not cover any type of routine medical care; that it should be reserved solely for complications from routine medical matters and catastrophic health problems. [...]
While listening to Neil Boortz the other day, he stated quite categorically that “Health care isn’t a right, it’s a privilege”. I don’t know about you, but I was brought up to believe that an essential tenet of morality is that anyone who is sick or injured deserves medical treatment, no matter who they are [...]
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