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Your View: Golden Rule should apply to health care
Either health care is an unalienable right or it is unequivocally not a right. We have a choice.
This is the fundamental argument underlying the health care reform debate today. How we, as a people, respond shall determine the well-being of countless future generations of yet unborn citizens.
Which vision for America’s future do you embrace?
I presented my liberal vision (published Sept. 4) and Jon Kovaciny delivered his conservative rebuttal, published Friday.
I was saddened to read on the eighth anniversary of the greatest act of terror in American history, that some had forgotten how our neighbors and our government rallied to aid those who lost everything. The better angels of our national character inspired Americans to “do unto others as you would have others do unto you.”
This powerful concept eloquently describes a universal ethic of reciprocity. The Golden Rule motivated our nation after 9/11 to care for each other and today it inspires the crusading spirit of health care reform. Those who share this ideal, recognize the unalienable right to medical care and a shared social responsibility to ensure equal human rights for all.
As a liberal, I believe that our neighbors should be treated with equal consideration, equal respect, equal compassion and equal medical care.
We, the people, are the government. We are our neighbor’s keepers in times of war and peace. We made that irrevocable commitment with the radification of the Constitution.
Today, my liberal conscience demands all Americans have healthcare at all times and in all ways, regardless of their wealth. What do you think?
What is your conscience telling you?
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