Why should healthcare be a right? I'm a liberal and I agree with Bernie Sander's that we need a universal healthcare.?

The Constitution says every citizen has a RIGHT to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'. A person's health IS part of being alive.

Besides, people get sick and/or are in accidents all the time. It is far cheaper for them top go to a Dr when they've been paying into a health plan instead of going to the emergency room to get care, then having the tax-payers cover the entire bill.

This business of misusing the word "right" has gotten completely out of hand. You have the right to take care of your own health. You have absolutely zero right to expect anybody else to care for you. That's slavery, and the issue of slavery was decided some time ago.

Health care is, however, something akin to public utilities like fire and police protection. It's something that an advanced society thinks of as an obligation to all its people. But calling it a right misses an important point, and is counter to any sensible approach.

You can provide universal health care without making health care a right. I see a health care as a social good. A good should be available to all. Even Hayek believed health insurance should be a social good and gives a very good argument for comprehensive insurance.

"Nor is there any reason why the state should not assist the individuals in providing for those common hazards of life against which, because of their uncertainty, few individuals can make adequate provision. Where, as in the case of sickness and accident, neither the desire to avoid such calamities nor the efforts to overcome their consequences are as a rule weakened by the provision of assistance – where, in short, we deal with genuinely insurable risks – the case for the state’s helping to organize a comprehensive system of social insurance is very strong … Wherever communal action can mitigate disasters against which the individual can neither attempt to guard himself nor make the provision for the consequences, such communal action should undoubtedly be taken." -- "The Road To Serfdom"

Healthcare currently IS a right. What you may be asking is, "Should I have a right to have other people pay for my healthcare?" The answer is, "not unless you have a right to have them pay for your food, housing, car, etc."

Actually, big insurance has spent billions of our dollars making sure that health care is not a right in the US. Billions we could have used for so many other things.

It is in most of the other civilized world, why shouldn't it be here too?

If u r a good liberal, the answer shud be obvious.

YOU have a "right" to get free stuff paid for by someone else.

All liberal "rights" have descriptors in front of them.

Womens "rights"

Black peoples "rights"

Special "rights" for homo-sexuals.

Thats the diff in libs and the constitution. Founders accepted the same rights for all.

Why shouldn't we have health care like every other civilized country?

Why do we need universal healthcare?

Are YOU going to pay for the 3rd worlds healthcare.

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