To be fair there are multiple conflicting arguments going on. We should stop arguing healthcare is a right and just argue its a good idea.
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Surely, consensus alone is not the basis for determining the existence of a right? Our constitution prescribes a criteria for the adoption
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In reality, yes. Ethically, no. In this case, universal healthcare seems ethically sound too.
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would be implied by making it a right.
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In the same way that the police force is tho no-one has the inalienable right to be protected or have others pursue justice on their behalf.
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There too you are correct, but we do not have police because of a right to be protected, they exist to maintain order on behalf of...
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I think I'm agreeing with you. I don't care whether you call a right or not or a contingent right or whatever.
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It think that it is spot on and reflective of much of everything I believe politically as well!
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People against it keep telling me healthcare isn't a right that objectively exists as if this is meaningful in some way.
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The medical professionals and services must make a living in order for health to advance and improve. Socialism has not provided this.
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Socialism? The NHS pays its staff.
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bill of rights, it would invariably raise serious issues of conflict with other rights.
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must provide health coverage (a critical distinction) then not only would it be the only instance of a positive right in the whole of the...
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The question of whether healthcare is a right strikes me as a rather misguided inquiry. If the result of it is to argue that the government
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of those 'inalienable rights' in that they must b compatible with foundational concepts of liberty, due process, equality under the law etc.
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Rights to believe, feel and want are not "rights" in the legal sense.
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