In a debate two weeks ago, Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu and her two Republican challengers were asked if they think health care is a “fundamental right.” Landrieu and Rep. Bill Cassidy, the GOP frontrunner, said “yes.” Republican Rob Maness, who has been backed by several Tea Party groups in the “jungle primary,” said “no.”
In an interview with the Sarah Palin fans at Mama Grizzly Radio’s “Palin Update” yesterday, Maness expanded on his answer, arguing that access to health care can’t be a fundamental right because “a fundamental right is one given to us by God that doesn’t have to be taken from another human being to be given to you.”
“And what happens with health care is it’s a product, a service that has to be taken from one person or group of people and given to somebody to make that a fundamental right for them,” he added. “And that’s not the American way, that’s the way of totalitarianism and authoritarianism and socialism.”
