Health Care, Education, or a Job

[MJ] *No Right to Health Care, Education, or a Job
 *by Jacob G. Hornberger
 Tuesday, November 9, 2010

 Statists love to say that people have a right to such things as health
 care, education, or a job. That's just plain statist nonsense. People do not
 have a right to health care, education, or a job.

 People have a right to seek health care, education, or a job but they don't
 have a right to them.

 What's the difference? Let's examine it.

 To say that someone has a right to health care is to say that someone else
 has a duty to provide it. Let's say I walk into a doctor's office and demand
 to see the doctor. The receptionist asks me to provide a credit card to
 cover the cost of the visit. I reply: "I don't have to pay for this service.
 I have a right to health care." The doctor walks in and says, "If you don't
 pay for my service, you're not getting treated."

 Isn't he interfering with my right to health care? If I have a right to
 health care, then shouldn't he be forced to provide it? If he refuses to
 provide it, then what good is my right to health care? The statist would say
 that a right to health care means the right to force a doctor or other
 health care provider to treat you for free (or force someone else to pay for
 it).

 Now, compare that with a right to seek health care. You have a right to
 walk into a doctor's office and ask if he will treat you. He has the right
 to say yes or no. If he says yes, both of you must arrive at a mutually
 agreeable price for the service. If you fail to do so, the doctor is free to
 walk away and so are you.

 It's the same with education. You don't have a right to force a teacher to
 provide you with an education. You have the right to seek an education by
 asking the teacher to teach you on mutually agreed-upon terms.

 It's the same with a job. You have the right to seek employment but not
 force an employer to hire you.

 In other words, you have the right to pursue happiness but you have no
 right to force others to provide you with health care, education, or a job.
 Genuine liberty entails the right to live your live any way you wish, so
 long as you leave everyone else free to do the same thing.

 http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-11-09.asp





--
Earl Reese

** *To compel a man to subsidize with **
his taxes the propagation of ideas which  he
disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
**Thomas  Jefferson*



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