Health Care is Not a Right, it is a Privilege

According to our Founding Fathers, Americans are guaranteed the rights of life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness...and only these. These are rights to action, not to rewards from other people. These rights require no obligation on any other person; rather, they guarantee you the chance to work for what you want. The right to life does not mean that others must feed you and nourish you. It means that you have the right to earn your food and your living, if necessary by a hard struggle, and no one can stop you or steal from you once you have earned these things.
You, as an American, should have the right to purchase health insurance as you see fit without government restrictions and you should not be under the impression that your neighbors have to buy it for you; because you know better than anybody else about you and your family's health needs. Also, we are a compassionate country. We have systems set up to help the poor and to help the elderly, charities that help, and churches, among other things.
The following is a quote that I found concerning this issue:
"In medicine, above all, the mind must be left free. Medical treatment involves countless variables and options that must be taken into account, weighed, and summed up by the doctor's mind and subconscious. Your life depends on the private, inner essence of the doctor's function: it depends on the input that enters his brain, and on the processing such input receives from him. What is being thrust now into the equation? It is not only objective medical facts any longer. Today, in one form or another, the following also has to enter that brain: 'The DRG administrator [in effect, the hospital or HMO man trying to control costs] will raise hell if I operate, but the malpractice attorney will have a field day if I don't -- and my rival down the street, who heads the local PRO [Peer Review Organization], favors a CAT scan in these cases, I can't afford to antagonize him, but the CON boys disagree and they won't authorize a CAT scanner for our hospital -- and besides the FDA prohibits the drug I should be prescribing, even though it is widely used in Europe, and the IRS might not allow the patient a tax deduction for it, anyhow, and I can't get a specialist's advice because the latest Medicare rules prohibit a consultation with this diagnosis, and maybe I shouldn't even take this patient, he's so sick -- after all, some doctors are manipulating their slate of patients, they accept only the healthiest ones, so their average costs are coming in lower than mine, and it looks bad for my staff privileges.' Would you like your case to be treated this way -- by a doctor who takes into account your objective medical needs and the contradictory, unintelligible demands of some ninety different state and Federal government agencies? If you were a doctor could you comply with all of it? Could you plan or work around or deal with the unknowable? But how could you not? Those agencies are real and they are rapidly gaining total power over you and your mind and your patients. In this kind of nightmare world, if and when it takes hold fully, thought is helpless; no one can decide by rational means what to do. A doctor either obeys the loudest authority -- or he tries to sneak by unnoticed, bootlegging some good health care occasionally or, as so many are doing now, he simply gives up and quits the field."