OK. The excellent blog Q&O has a great post entitled "The “right” to health care". It discusses a column by Walter Williams on why health-care is NOT a right, and what a "right" actually is.
"No “right” as defined by the Constitution (a statement of law) or Declaration of Independence (a statement of philosophy undergirding our country’s law) impose obligations on others for their exercise. What they do impose is a responsibility of non-interference which allows others to exercise their rights. But, as Williams points out, the “right” to health care does impose an obligation on others for that person to exercise their “right”:"
Go read the whole thing by clicking the link above. It is too good to try and give you piecemeal.
The simple truth, no matter how the left tries to fudge the meaning of "rights", is that health-care is NOT a right. This government health-care mandate is not constitutional. Then again, as most of you know, neither is about 70% of what the government does.
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