Right Health Care
Those of you who think health care is a right: What makes it a right?
The constitution doesn’t say health care is a right.
What makes health care a right?
The fact that it’s arguably a necessity?
Do you consider all necessities rights?
Do consider food to be a right?
What makes health care a right as opposed to a privelege?
Nowhere in the constitution does it say health care is a right.
First of all, it doesn’t matter whether health care is a right or not. Either way, we can decide to institute a national health care system. We established a postal service and a national park system. Neither of those are “rights.”
Secondly, our rights are not limited to those enumerated in the constitution. For example, restaurants sometimes post a sign: “We Reserve The Right to Refuse Service to Anyone.” If we the people decide, through the democratic process, that henceforth all Americans have a right to health care, then it will be so.
Michael Cannon: Is Health Care a Right or Privilege?