Comments on: Amending the Constitution to include health care as a right http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/02/amending-constitution-to-include-health.html medical blog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:56:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Gasman http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/02/amending-constitution-to-include-health.html/comment-page-1#comment-71315 Gasman Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:12:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/02/amending-the-constitution-to-include-health-care-as-a-right.html#comment-71315 Merely declaring a new right does not answer the existing dilemmas of access, pay, insurance, medicines etc. Merely declaring a new right does not answer the existing dilemmas of access, pay, insurance, medicines etc.

]]> By: KipEsquire http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/02/amending-constitution-to-include-health.html/comment-page-1#comment-71304 KipEsquire Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:35:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/02/amending-the-constitution-to-include-health-care-as-a-right.html#comment-71304 <i>"McCoy's SJR4 would amend the Utah Constitution to require the Legislature to establish and maintain a system to provide "affordable, medically necessary" health care for all Utah citizens."</i><br /><br />Medically necessary -- as determined by whom and by what standard? Politicians and bureaucrats -- perhaps even judges?<br /><br />That is the inevitable outcome of any such proposal. “McCoy’s SJR4 would amend the Utah Constitution to require the Legislature to establish and maintain a system to provide “affordable, medically necessary” health care for all Utah citizens.”

Medically necessary — as determined by whom and by what standard? Politicians and bureaucrats — perhaps even judges?

That is the inevitable outcome of any such proposal.

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