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Right or Privilege?by David McIntyreArguably the biggest controversy in the nationalspotlight is the debate over a government run healthcaresystem. As a conservative myself, I’ll be the first to admitthat the system as it stands is flawed. Anybody that believesotherwise must be living in a fairytale. But what isthe right course of action?I’m not here to telling you what the answer is tothis problem, but I am goingto break this down without bias to the best of my ability.The Democrats strongly believe in a governmentrun healthcare system and have been working diligentlyto come up with a solution to the many flaws. The twomain problems that Democrats, with respect to a privatehealthcare system, are trying to solve are the rising costs ofhealthcare and the disparity of healthcare across economicclasses. In laymen’s terms, people today can’t afford healthcarebecause it’s too expensive and the quality of healthcarebetween the rich and poor are absurd. For example,the United States spends more money per capita than anyother developed nation that is under a public healthcaresystem. Not only that, the rising cost of healthcare in theUnited States has risen, as a percentage, greater than anyother nation in the world. Many left-wingers that promotepublic healthcare believe that preventative medicine is theanswer to decrease the costs. Democrats also believe thattoo many people are uninsured (at one point reaching justover 15%), and therefore strive to insure that all peopleshould be covered under a government run healthcare system.Democrats believe that the insurance companies are,in a word, evil. Since insurance companies are businesses,the only thing they are worried about is how much moneythey can make and not necessarily the overall well being ofthe patient.On the contrary, Republicans believe that healthcareis a responsibility of the people and the governmentshould have little business in the matter. In our AP Governmentclass, we’ve learned that Americans “believe in equalityof opportunity, but not necessarily equality of results.”Americans, as a whole, believe in the “American Dream”where hard work and a little bit of elbow grease will be rewarded.A public healthcare system would violate the moralsof this dream because somebody who hasn’t performedand may be classified as lazy will be given healthcare, whilea person that has made the right decisions in their life andhas worked hard to earn healthcare will essentially not berewarded. The truth of the matter is that people will beless motivated to succeed. This is because they knowthe government will bail them out. Republicans believethat the ideology of public healthcare is socialistic tosay the least, and some will go even further and say thisis the first, major step of changing from capitalism tosocialism. One of the biggest questions of Republicansis who’s going to pay for public healthcare? There is onlyone viable answer: the rich. So now Obama plans topenalize the rich by taxing them, but for what reason?The only things you can pin on the rich is that they hadthe determination, work ethic, and have made the rightdecisions to accomplish everything they’ve done. Onlyabout five million (out of almost 305 million) people inAmerica don’t have access to healthcare once you eliminatethe illegal immigrants and people who have accessto healthcare, but don’t take the necessary actions toreceive healthcare. In the Republicans’ eyes, they seeObama overhauling the system as we know it for lessthan 1.7% of our nation and they see him leaving thetab for the rich. Republicans also believe that, like manyother government ran programs, this will eventuallyend up in disaster. If this were to happen, as history hasshown with Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae (along withsocial security and Medicare on the verge of failing), ournation as a whole would collapse. All this considered,many Republicans believe that public healthcare ran bythe government is fiscally, morally, and ideologically thewrong decision.Although I don’t believe in a nationalized publichealthcare system, I do believe that the governmentshould provide to a certain group of individuals, such aschildren under the age of eighteen and the elderly onfixed incomes. Having said that, I don’t believe that anyworking-able body should be entitled to healthcare. It istheir responsibility, not the government’s. Many peoplesay we have the best healthcare system in the world,while others argue that this is in no way true. It is truethat every year many people travel to America to getthe health care our insurance companies provide. Butone can also argue that our healthcare costs too muchand doesn’t provide for everybody.The late, democratic president John F. Kennedyonce stated, “ask not whatyour country can do for you - ask what you can do foryour country.”The ideals behind public healthcare blatantlydefy his words. And one could argue that our nation,a nation that has been on the decline in various categoriesfor decades now, may have another reason tobecome even lazier.
There are so many variables to consider in thisdebate, but in the end it comes to one question:Is healthcare a right or a privilege?Liggett Hockey Previewby Tripp DammanOn November 2nd 2009, the University LiggettVarsity Hockey team will begin practicing for a long andhopefully successful season. With a previous record of10 wins and 14 loses, the hockey team hopes to have amuch more successful season. The varsity hockey teamwill need to work together to improve the overall consistency,therefore, resulting in a possible state title.The hockey team lost four seniors last yearincluding Drew Amato, Erik Litch, Clarke Dirksen, andKyle Keith. Although losing these seniors hurt, the teamwas able to obtain some new experienced players.From the freshmen class we now have Mark Auk, JacobSoyka, Manny Counsman, and a goalie, Nate Gaggin. Anaddition from the sophomore class, Connor Wiggins, isa vital member of the hockey team (although he is ineligibleto play as of this semester). From the senior class,Jacob Goldberg will be the most important additionto our team. Jake is coming from years of playing AAAhockey with various teams including Honeybaked andLittle Caesars (with whom he was able to achieve a nationaltitle). These additions to the Knight’s roster haveincreased the skill level of the overall team significantly.In addition, Dave McIntyre, the team’s startinggoalie, is now able to play the whole course of theteam’s season (rather than just the second semester).Now that Dave is able to play the entire season, theKnights’ goaltending will improve dramatically. Also,Dan Zukas, a three year varsity letter winner, will makean attempt at breaking the record for most points in ahigh school career set by Bob Wood. Dan, currently having147 points, needs to obtain 63 more points to breakthis record.Robb McIntyre (no relation to Dave) will behead coach for his second year, and has proved himselfcapable of turning a decent team into a great one. RobbMcIntyre has experience playing junior A, college, andprofessional hockey for the Toronto Maple Leafs. JohnBartoy will not be returning as assistant coach due to hisdecision of taking another job. Kevin Breen will still havea presence on the team as an assistant coach. In searchof an additional assistant coach, Robb has had his handsfull, trying to find the right coach for the job. He has comeacross Mike Linber, who will be helping out mostly withthe defensive players and strategies. The addition of MikeLinber will help out the team a great amount and hopefullyincrease the overall success of the Liggett Knights.The varsity hockey team expects to have a completelydifferent year with all the changes. These changeshave quickly turned Liggett around to have one of themost skilled teams in our division. Playing almost thesame schedule as last year, we are expecting a significantincrease in wins. Hopefully we can use our talent to makegames more exciting and increase our fan base.9
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