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The "Right" to Healthcare
Oct. 13th, 2021 11:27 pmHealthcare as a right has always struck me as an odd concept. How can a populace have a "right" to healthcare? What exactly kind of right is this?
Healthcare is something that is delivered by doctors, nurses, surgeons, EMTs, and other personnel. They must be paid for their service (otherwise, they wouldn't provide the service...unless forced to do so). How are these facts implicated by the concept of healthcare as a right? Does a right to healthcare imply that people have a right for some entity or entities to employ health care workers? Does it imply that some entity or entities should maintain institutions for training healthcare workers?
What if no one wanted to work in healthcare? How would a right to healthcare be honored in that case?
It always seems that people who think of healthcare as a right want their government to ensure that right. Do they therefore also think that the government is responsible for ensuring that trained healthcare workers are available? Governments don't run medical schools (not in this country anyhow), although governments do vet medical schools to some extent. What does that limited oversight suggest about a right to healthcare as something ensured by governments?
A right to healthcare just seems very different from other kinds of rights.
I tend to get exasperated with discussion of rights because people use the concept of rights rhetorically, to refer to things they simply feel very strongly that people should be able to do or to things they feel very strongly should be respected. A "right" to have an opinion is a common example. Such a "right" is obviously totally different than a right to a fair trial, and to me it seems disingenuous or at least obfuscating to speak of them as if they are the same sort of thing. I quite dislike rhetoric; it's whole purpose is to communicate things in disingenuous ways.
In some cases, I doubt that people are even conscious that they are using rhetoric, and I then feel the need to disentangle the bullshit they are saying to continue having a productive conversation, and I dislike having to put forth that effort, especially since the effort could be avoided if people would just stop bullshitting.
I would simply say that I would like people to respect others' opinions. That way is clear and straight-forward.
I lifted today despite my arm still being sore from yesterday's IV. Today was the first day I tried bench pressing with a partial range of motion (not lifting the weight all the way up), a chest-isolation technique I learned from watching Jonni Schreve's YouTube channel. I guess it works because this was the first time I ever felt my chest working while I was lifting.
Only in the past few months have I ever felt anything in my chest that's related to lifting. I guess I never worked my chest hard enough to make it sore. Now I finally know what pectoral muscle fatigue feels like. It doesn't feel like muscle fatigue in my other body parts; it feels duller and more distributed—which I guess makes sense given that the pecs are one of the larger muscle groups of the body. Now I wonder whether I'd feel something similar if I worked my upper back harder.
It's late now. I should have started this post earlier, but I got stuck reading comments on the ABoringDystopia subreddit. Literally got stuck, struggled to pull myself away for hours. More background info: I've recently been diagnosed with autism. I'm guessing that's why I had so much trouble pulling myself away from the comments. I get like that when I'm really into something; wanting to stop but struggling to do so.
Healthcare is something that is delivered by doctors, nurses, surgeons, EMTs, and other personnel. They must be paid for their service (otherwise, they wouldn't provide the service...unless forced to do so). How are these facts implicated by the concept of healthcare as a right? Does a right to healthcare imply that people have a right for some entity or entities to employ health care workers? Does it imply that some entity or entities should maintain institutions for training healthcare workers?
What if no one wanted to work in healthcare? How would a right to healthcare be honored in that case?
It always seems that people who think of healthcare as a right want their government to ensure that right. Do they therefore also think that the government is responsible for ensuring that trained healthcare workers are available? Governments don't run medical schools (not in this country anyhow), although governments do vet medical schools to some extent. What does that limited oversight suggest about a right to healthcare as something ensured by governments?
A right to healthcare just seems very different from other kinds of rights.
I tend to get exasperated with discussion of rights because people use the concept of rights rhetorically, to refer to things they simply feel very strongly that people should be able to do or to things they feel very strongly should be respected. A "right" to have an opinion is a common example. Such a "right" is obviously totally different than a right to a fair trial, and to me it seems disingenuous or at least obfuscating to speak of them as if they are the same sort of thing. I quite dislike rhetoric; it's whole purpose is to communicate things in disingenuous ways.
In some cases, I doubt that people are even conscious that they are using rhetoric, and I then feel the need to disentangle the bullshit they are saying to continue having a productive conversation, and I dislike having to put forth that effort, especially since the effort could be avoided if people would just stop bullshitting.
I would simply say that I would like people to respect others' opinions. That way is clear and straight-forward.
I lifted today despite my arm still being sore from yesterday's IV. Today was the first day I tried bench pressing with a partial range of motion (not lifting the weight all the way up), a chest-isolation technique I learned from watching Jonni Schreve's YouTube channel. I guess it works because this was the first time I ever felt my chest working while I was lifting.
Only in the past few months have I ever felt anything in my chest that's related to lifting. I guess I never worked my chest hard enough to make it sore. Now I finally know what pectoral muscle fatigue feels like. It doesn't feel like muscle fatigue in my other body parts; it feels duller and more distributed—which I guess makes sense given that the pecs are one of the larger muscle groups of the body. Now I wonder whether I'd feel something similar if I worked my upper back harder.
It's late now. I should have started this post earlier, but I got stuck reading comments on the ABoringDystopia subreddit. Literally got stuck, struggled to pull myself away for hours. More background info: I've recently been diagnosed with autism. I'm guessing that's why I had so much trouble pulling myself away from the comments. I get like that when I'm really into something; wanting to stop but struggling to do so.
