> Health care is not a right, because it can't be. If that's meant to be justified by what went before it, then I think you've overstated it. As long as many e

> Health care is not a right, because it can't be. If that's meant to be justified by what went before it, then I think you've overstated it. As long as many effective treatments are very expensive, health care that includes every treatment a person might reasonably want can't be a right. It's perfectly possible for some health care to be a right. And if by some miracle (and it would have to be a miracle, or something very like one) all the costs came way down, it would be possible for all the health care one could reasonably want to be a right. The second of these points is, at least for the foreseeable future, merely a quibble. The first is not. It is entirely possible to make some health care -- quite a lot of health care, in fact -- into a right. That's how things are in the UK, for instance, and despite the attempts of some in the US to portray our health system as a disaster, I don't think I know anyone in the UK who doesn't strongly prefer the UK system to the US one. (I'm taking "right" to mean "thing guaranteed by law" rather than "thing to which one is morally entitled". I take it that was your meaning too.)