UnitedHealth CEO assassinated

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Originally Posted by Mayhem

Healthcare should be a right not a privilege. You pay for a privilege. The only privilege here is that you have the choice to use the NHS or go private.

And besides, the survival rates for a number of chronic conditions suggests otherwise re America having the best healthcare system. So you’re sometimes paying through the nose and still not getting as good care as many other countries.

Healthcare should be a "right". But your regular bull$#!( semantics aside, you can't force someone to give enough a $#!( about you to care for you. In tribal days people were denied healthcare from the tribe all the time unless the tribe needed them specifically for something.

Obviously we have different worldviews now over our tribal past, but the simple fact is that you cannot in ethical society, ironically enough, compel anyone to take care of you. And that is why there are free market solutions even for that. But healthcare isn't an 'inalienable right' because it requires other people to take care of you - and at the end of the day those people have a choice to do it or not. Freedom is a "right" because it requires nothing of others beyond "letting you be 'free". There is a huge difference.

Either way, America has the best healthcare system, even when it is restricted by government in terms of drug certifications and whatnot.