Obama and McCain on Health Care: Right or Responsibility
The way the candidates responded to Tom Brokaw's question on health care during this evening's debate says a great deal about their philosophy on government.
Obama says health care should be considered a right, echoing the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He might actually try to mandate access to health care through law. McCain's sentiment that health care is a responsibility seems to imply not law but moralism -- that good employers ...
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