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Originally Posted by smax
I disagree with your idea of basic health care being a fundamental right because its flat out wrong. By definition a fundamental right is a right that has its origin in a country's constitution or that is necessarily implied from the terms of that constitution. Nowhere in the US constitution does it mention right to free or affordable health care, I think you are confusing a fundamental right with moral obligation.
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You may disagree on the words of healthcare being a "right" (call it a moral obligation or whatever), but that is the basic concept surrounding healthcare in most industrialized countries. Namely - "everyone" is entitled to medical treatment irrespective of "how nasty" they may be or what it may cost etc.
The US Constitution is an excellent document and obviously considered carefully by those who participated in drafting that document. The world has moved on in a few hundred years - and will continue to move forward. Agree that there is no specific provision in the US Constitution for healthcare - however that was never the guidelines for the rest of the industrialized world and, least most of them, do provide healthcare as a right - and not necessarily with any basic changes to their constitution.
It may be worth noting that any industrialized country would freely provide healthcare to any individual from the US should they need this while travelling. Call it a moral obligation or whatever - but the net result is back to that keyphrase "accessable healthcare".
BTW... Nothing on this planet is "flat out wrong" - there are millions of shades of grey
