The absurdity of a right to health care
Those who argue that there is a "right" to health care or health insurance coverage are caught in a very serious problem. The implications of such a "right" are abhorrent. If I have a right to health care, what do I do if it will cost my doctor or my insurance company so much to treat me that it's actually better for them to close their businesses? The implication is that I have the right to use violence to force them to operate at a loss, possibly endangering their ability to care for themselves and their families. What if all the insurance company owners and doctors could make more money in other lines of work and chose to close up shop? It would seem I then have the right to use violence to force them back into their previous lines of work and to handle my treatment. What if people just stopped going into the insurance and health care fields altogether? It seems that anyone who 'needed' treatment would then have the right to start rounding people up by force and ordering them to become doctors and insurance providers at the point of a gun so that the "rights" of the sick wouldn't be violated.
I think perhaps those advocates of a "right" to health care are a tad bit guilty of not having reasoned their belief through to its logical conclusion.
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