Health is a right. Healthcare is merely the means by which that right is exercised. And if you are limiting "rights" to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are you going to argue that health is not embedded in the right to life, or the right to liberty, or the right to the pursuit of happiness, none of which can be actualised wi…
Health is a right. Healthcare is merely the means by which that right is exercised. And if you are limiting "rights" to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are you going to argue that health is not embedded in the right to life, or the right to liberty, or the right to the pursuit of happiness, none of which can be actualised without health??? Also, I find your tone to be condescending. Like you, I live in a country (Canada) that has universal health care -- it is indeed not free, it is paid for through our tax dollars. It used to be an excellent and indeed universal entitlement, however as parts of it have been increasingly privatised under conservative provincial governments, the poor are now being sidelined from health care services, just as they are in the US. I suspect you can afford to pay for your own healthcare, and that makes you very fortunate. But most of your fellow Americans aren't so lucky.
Health is a right. Healthcare is merely the means by which that right is exercised. And if you are limiting "rights" to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are you going to argue that health is not embedded in the right to life, or the right to liberty, or the right to the pursuit of happiness, none of which can be actualised without health??? Also, I find your tone to be condescending. Like you, I live in a country (Canada) that has universal health care -- it is indeed not free, it is paid for through our tax dollars. It used to be an excellent and indeed universal entitlement, however as parts of it have been increasingly privatised under conservative provincial governments, the poor are now being sidelined from health care services, just as they are in the US. I suspect you can afford to pay for your own healthcare, and that makes you very fortunate. But most of your fellow Americans aren't so lucky.
What Carol said.