“Dalrymple” on health care
Theodore Dalrymple continues the debate regarding whether health care is a right in the WSJ, where he argues in the negative, with one of the strangest moral hazards arguements around:
When the supposed right to health care is widely recognized, as in the United Kingdom, it tends to reduce moral imagination. Whenever I deny the existence of a right to health care to a Briton who asserts it, he replies, “So you think it is all right for people to be left to die in the street?”
When I then ask my interlocutor whether he can think of any reason why people should not be left to die in the street, other than that they have a right to health care, he is generally reduced to silence. He cannot think of one.
Sam and Jake have it out on health care here, here, and here.
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I can think of a reason….because in a civilized society, the value of life itself is the highest moral belief one can have,and to watch unfazed as someone dies is to wish that upon ones self. It is, in fact, counter-productive.
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