Health Care - Right or Privilige?

Is health care a right? Or is it a privilige? Yes and No.

Why are we even debating this? Because we are shallow. Most of our debates are just that - shallow.

Health Care is certainly not your kind of natural or inalieanable right. You are not born with the right to have it, save what you give to yourself or what your caretaker provide for you. But there is also another class of rights that is contingent on the developmental stage of the society - I would call this class of rights resource rights. What do I mean?

Every society has natural and developed resoures that add value for all its citizens. The more developed, the more value is added. Roads, waterways, public utilities, the justice system, national security - all these support and underlie the creation of value in the society. All these are, in most cases, owned by the overall society.

These are what help to determine what "resource rights" citizens should have available to them.
Health Care is of course critical to the capacity to enjoy and benefit from all natural rights. What is the value of your right to free speech if you end up in a coma for the rest of your life?

So yes, health care is indeed a right. But it comes about because of a common privilege - the privilege to partake in the common and residual resources of a society created by the combined labor and efforts of generations.

The richest, most developed society on this planet cannot argue that its citizens do not have a right to this fundamental resource so that it can adequately pursue and enjoy all the natural or inalianable rights.

In America, and probably in all other developed nations, health care is indeed a right. To argue otherwise is to be, somewhat sick.