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Cramer's Mad Money -10 Reasons the Economy Is Not So Bad (2/6/09)

Healthcare is not a right. But we can debate that for a long time without agreeing.

I am not supporting a company's "right" to deny healthcare. What I am questioning is why do we assume the companies MUST provide healthcare coverage at all? Where did that get written in a law, a constitutional amendment or regulation?? You see, I don't agree that companies should be FORCED to supply healthcare coverage. If they offer it, then that is great. But if they don't, then we shouldn't judge them harshly. Now, their employees can judge them harshly and use their feet to vote! They can decide not to work for WMT because Target or anyone else decided to offer healthcare coverage.

What we're approaching, since so many of you decided that healthcare is a "right", is healthcare as welfare. Again, if that's what the majority of the country wants, then I guess that's where we're going. But don't impale the system with rules that will strangle the free-market side of the biz. Previous attempts would have made it ILLEGAL for a provider to work within the government's system and a free market pay as you go system. That is ludicrous. If I can pay for a doctor out of my pocket, why shouldn't he be allowed.

How about we take a few trillion out of O's "Steal-from-us" plan and use it to buy a high deductible healthcare plan for everyone?? Then, I'm sure we'll have to give out checks for the deductibles for everyone but the evil rich. Personally, I have a HSA and a HDHP that covers catostophic events.

What next? Owning a home is a right? Owning a car is a right? I guess with the new "fix" the gov't will be bailing out the idiots that got in over their heads with high leverage mortgages and couldn't read or comprehend those evil loan documents. While those of us living within our own means still have to pay 100% of our mortgage, these clowns will have 30-50% of their loan balances "forgiven". I'd like for someone to say "thank you" when I finish paying for their stupidity and greed.

Cramer's Mad Money -10 Reasons the Economy Is Not So Bad (2/6/09)

Atypical: you said that WMT is "not providing benefits, (pushing costs onto states rolls for healthcare)".

Please answer me this: Where is it written that healthcare benefits MUST be underwritten by employers?? Why is that something that HAS TO BE PAID for by an employer? Healthcare is not a right, particularly a right of employment. Companies that pay for healthcare pay for it either out of the kindness of their hearts or because they have a business case...keep employees healthy and they show up at work and make me lots of money!!!

The nanny state...a trainwreck waiting to happen! Just ask your friends in the Former Soviet Republics how great it USED to be for them!!