I'm a doctor. After the recent Democratic debate in which basically all (all?) the candidates affirmed health care as a basic human right I was asked what I think. After a lot of thought I came up with this:
I think health care is NOT a human right specifically because it is the product of the physical and mental effort of other people. No one has an intrinsic right to someone else's labor. Health care is important and it should be a national priority to provide it to as many people as possible and at the highest level possible, but it doesn't rise to the status of a "right". The rights to life and liberty- which I interpret basically as the right to not be murdered and to reasonably pursue personal prosperity- don't require the consumption of another persons production, which allows them to be "rights" without violating the sovereignty of a persons ownership of their own labor.
I'd appreciate comments and feedback as I'm still working through this.
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