Medicare at 50 Act reintroduced

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DeusxMac wrote:
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Health care is a human right.

I think this is an overstatement; hyperbole.

"Rights" are things you have inherently and which should not be diminished nor taken from you.
There's no such thing as a "right" at all then.

Name a "right" that you have inherently and not by the grace of society and family.
You trivialize the distinction. Of course another person could kill you and deny you all your “rights” no matter how anyone defines or categorizes them.

“To say that there is widespread acceptance of the principle of human rights is not to say that there is complete agreement about the nature and scope of such rights or, indeed, their definition.”
Exactly.

So, rights are what you and your society make of them in the moment.

Maybe a "right" for this purpose is an obligation of your government to perform or to forbear from performing an act.

We're an affluent nation with the capability of providing subsidized high quality health care to the population without much difficulty. In fact, most studies show that it would benefit most of the economy, eliminating the majority of bankruptcies, putting more money into free markets, saving overhead on hospital billing (which typically pads about 40% of a hospital bill), and promoting businesses large and small by taking the burden of healthcare off of their staff and budgets.

It's inhumane of us and wrongheaded to NOT have a single-payer system. Our government should implement a single-payer system because access to high quality health care should be a right. (And will be once implemented.)