Health Care is not a Right

Saying health care is a right is drives a wedge down the middle of the health care debate rather than pulling people together for a solution.  

In our democracy rights are what we should all be absolutely entitled to do as part of being able to control our own life.  Rights are absolute except to the extent our exercise of our rights impinges on the rights of some other person or persons.  In that case the parties negotiate a compromise, or society sets up rules to govern how the competing rights balance.

Health care, by definition, is one person being helped by another person. 

Forcing a person or persons to provide health care for someone else is - well - dictatorial. Smacks of slavery.  It is a denial of the other person's rights to make their own choices about life.

That's not to say universal health care is not a laudable goal and an enlightened idea.  But it is not a right, it is something we as a society chose to do because we perceive t benefits us all.