GOP Rep.: Healthcare is not a right

05 March 2009
By David Edwards
President Obama is set to convene a summit on reforming healthcare today. Rep. Zach Wamp told MSNBCs Tamron Hall that the Obamas healthcare plans would lead to socialism. Wamp believes that healthcare is not a right because many choose not to have insurance.

This is almost class warfare in order for him to be able to say everyone now has health care. Listen, healthcare is a privilege, said Wamp.

Tamron Hall asked Wamp to explain. I was just about to say, for some people its a right but for everyone frankly its not necessarily a right, he said. Half the people uninsured today choose to remain uninsured. Half of them dont have any choice, but half of them choose to to go naked and take the risk of getting sick. They end up in the emergency room costing you and me a whole lot more money.