Should health insurance be a right?

I just watched a segment on 60 minutes about a hospital in Nevada cutting cancer treatment to people without insurance because the hospital can longer afford to provide the service. The turned away patients all recently lost jobs, insurance and now their treatment options. These patients are/were middle class people. And now what should happen to these folks. This could happen to any of us. Should health insurance be a right?

HQ... when you lose your job and you are lying in a bed too sick to move and you have no more health insurance in this country you are dead. In our great country you are dead. Our great country. Whatch the segment HQ.

You already have the right to purchase health insurance, and the insurance companies have the right to charge you whatever they feel like, deny payment, and cancel for no reason. In most countries health care is considered a right. Only in the US is the purpose of the health care delivery system to deny treatment to people who need it in order to make a private corporation rich. 鈭犅?

No where in the Constitution does it say that health insurance coverage is a "right".

I saw the segment tonight and it was really sad. They are going to die unless they can find an organization to intercede for them.

Under Universal Health Care, their chances of treatment are even less because of the "cost effectiveness" of the very treatment that would save their lives.

Don't fall for a heart breaking story to sway you to support Universal Health Care. The biggest dilemma it covers is less coverage and death.

When saying health insurance should be given a right be specific
as to avoid confrontation
such as right to purchase---
right to have---
and so on and so forth

Technically the US should try and fight for Universal Health care since some countries in the world have it like countries in Europe and Canada.

As for those patients they will not get much help due to their lifespan and failed preliminaries (Michael Moore- Sicko)

Health care should be taken care of by the government and federal law.

Health care should be a right for every U.S. citizen, whether or not (s)he has health insurance. Insurance only makes insurance companies rich. Doctors and hospitals should be legally required to treat ALL patients, regardless of their ability to pay. In a country as rich as the U.S.A., every legal citizen should have the right to first-class health care. -RKO-

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Do the Enumerated Powers in Article 1 of the US Constitution grant the federal government the power to do that? Nope.

We have 50 states that each have the right to try their own health care program. No takers.

Everyone deserves health insurance. Doctors shouldn't have a choice of who lives and who dies.

To quote our President, who, by the way, won all three debates against Mcblame "yes". McBlame disagreed, or didn't know how to answer, or picked the wrong one. And people actually voted for him!!!

Universal health insurance has not worked in any country it has been tried in.

Move to Canada if you want health insurance.

Nope. It is a personal responsibility. Those that need assistance can get it.