Quote:

only 1 developed nation that believes basic health care is not a right. You might believe you have better rights, but to many of us, that's the most basic right.



True rights exist simultaneously among people; hence, exercise of a right by one person does not diminish those held by others. My free-speech rights, for example, or my right to travel wherever I wish impose no obligations whatsoever on anyone else -- no obligation except not to interfere.

If we extrapolate the conceit in the quote above to my right of free speech, government would then be obligated to provide me with an auditorium or perhaps even television and radio air time. My right to travel freely would require government-subsidized airfare and hotel accommodations.

For the government to guarantee a right to health care -- or any other good or service -- whether a person can afford it or not, it must diminish someone else's rights, namely the rights to the fruits of their labors.