Rand Paul, 2011 - With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. It means that you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses.
Basically, once you imply a belief in a right to someone’s services — do you have a right to plumbing? Do you have a right to water? Do you have right to food? — you’re basically saying you believe in slavery.
I’m a physician in your community and you say you have a right to health care. You have a right to beat down my door with the police, escort me away and force me to take care of you? That’s ultimately what the right to free health care would be.
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That guy should be struck off as a physician and as a senator. He's either dishonest and shameless with it, or demented.
It's not "free" healthcare and it certainly isn't "slavery". The practitioners get paid from taxes. They just don't get to set ad-libitum fees.
His political bedfellows would (supposedly!) say that someone who doesn't like what they earn should find something else to do.
But he doesn't do that when it's about him or his rather than some poor bastard working 3 jobs to survive.
Like all his ilk, he's a predator, and definitely has no business in any position of public trust and responsibility.
argumentum ad absurdum...
But exactly right. Fail to pay your taxes and the government WILL arrest and WILL fine or imprison you. A *right* imposed by force on one individual for the benefit of another IS slavery.
Consider the year of that comment, back when Birtherism was at its height and everything from the GOP was required to include racist content. Much as Canadian TV has to have Canadian content.
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