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General Category => Politics => Topic started by: redcliffsw on March 30, 2017, 06:35:21 AM

Title: Is Health Care a Right or a Good?
Post by: redcliffsw on March 30, 2017, 06:35:21 AM

Of course, the federal government has been creating expectations that it calls rights for centuries. To stay in office, members of Congress bribe the rich with bailouts, the middle class with tax cuts and the poor with made-up rights to all sorts of things.

Yet under the Constitution, healthcare is not a right; it is a good — like an education or a gym membership. You work hard, you decide what goods to purchase. If the government gives you the good, that does not magically transform it into a right. Bravo to the courageous House Republicans who recognize this.
-Andrew P. Napolitano

Read on:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/03/andrew-p-napolitano/health-care-right/