Health care is not a right

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board thinks health care should be a basic right.

In America, buy cialis capsule rights are traditionally things you already have in a natural state that can’t or should not be taken away: life, case liberty, speech, freedom, self-defense.

But you don’t already HAVE healthcare: you purchase it from people who spent a very long time learning to become medical professionals.

You don’t have a right to other people’s time, talent, and expertise.

What the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is talking about is an entitlement not a right.

I’m willing to discuss the possibility of making universal health care an entitlement for every American.

Unlike the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, I’m not willing to abuse the meaning of the word “right” to try to lend the idea extra credibility.

3 comments May 20th, 2007