No insurance company, no politician or government bureaucrat knows better than you about your family’s health needs. You should have the right to purchase health care and health insurance as you see fit without governmental restrictions or penalties, and you should not be of the mind that your neighbors have to buy it for you.

It is not complicated. It is very simple. We get liberalism out of it; we get socialism out of it; we disabuse people of the notion that liberals have impressed them with that it is a right.

I am hell-bent on as many people as possible understanding the truth, the greatness of this country, how it works and how it is going to be sustained.

Health care is not a right, it is a privilege. It’s a choice.

However, the accumulation of wealth is a right.

That is, you have a right to freely earn an income and dispose of it as you wish: purchase food, purchase shelter, if you want to purchase health care, whatever else. And that right comes from God as enunciated in the Declaration of Independence.

The pursuit of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.

The right to accumulate wealth exists for all of us, but health care is an expenditure, therefore it is not a right. Besides that, folks, we have Medicaid for the poor. We have Medicare for senior citizens. We have the S-CHIP program for poor children and, if the Democrats get their way, children up to 25 who come from wealthy families.

What we also have in this country are some people who don’t want to use their own assets to pay for their own health care. They want someone else to do it.

And that brings in a very happy and compliant Democrat Party.

It is a matter of individual priorities.

Moral obligations, are actually higher on the list of things than rights. That’s why we set up systems to take care of the indigent, because we are a moral people. It is why we have Medicare; it is why we have Medicaid; it is why we have S-CHIP. At least it’s why we started them.

It’s why good people support them. We can get into an argument here of whether these programs are more of the same liberal drivel to create as many dependents as possible.

I think we are a compassionate country, and we are a country that understands our moral obligations to people who can’t provide for themselves because of certain things, and those people nobody will argue with, being taken care of and helped.

That is precisely why we set up systems to take care of the indigent.

It is why we take care of our neighbors. It is why we have our churches engage in the various community actions that they do and, not to mention, there’s all kinds of other community organizations that exist for the express purpose of bringing things to poor, indigent people that they don’t have and can’t have on their own.

This is a country of high moral obligation, and we meet those moral obligations at all times. That is why, because we have such a moral obligation, and because we are such a compassionate people, and because we are such a generous people, this is why we try to lower costs and increase competition so that more people can be taken care of well, so that people are not left to fall through the cracks.

Now, this doesn’t mean that any of this is a right. It is our moral obligation as a society that has us take care of people who otherwise could not afford this.

I would submit to you that the whole notion of having your neighbor pay for what your responsibilities are can be very addictive, once it starts. Rights are the lowest claim and therefore command universal respect.

Privileges and moral obligations are higher than basic human rights, not dragged around by them.

Human rights do not dictate moral obligations; it’s just the exact opposite. Moral obligations manifest themselves in the form of human rights, and so when our moral obligations and our morality is being torn down and the whole concept of doing things for the right reason becomes doing things for the wrong reason.

When people opt out of their own personal responsibility to acquire that which they want with their own assets and shove that on all the rest of us.

That’s where we are in health care. Precisely because we have allowed enough people to believe that health care is their right, not their responsibility.

“It is, what it is.”