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My biggest beef with the “healthcare is a human right” is that the vast majority that say it (in my experience) are very overweight people who have horrible health habits.
If I lived in a country full of people who took care of their health and we weren't constantly importing diseased third worlders, I'd be in favor of universal healthcare too. But we don't, and every day we get further and further from that ideal, so I am not.
Canada is outright telling it's citizens that they should kill themselves for the Greater Good. Healthcare is a finite resource, why waste it on people past their productive years who might be nostalgic for the way things used to be and vote accordingly?
Healthcare isn't a limited resource, but peoples time is. The phrase "Healthcare is a human right" is the cry of a slaver because it demands that doctors, nurses, technicians, etc no longer have the right to set the terms for their skills, labour and time.
The time of doctors et all are an integral part if healthcare and thus makes it a limited resource. There's also the material components to consider; medicine, bandages, clean sheets, etc. It's also why an ambulance ride costs like a thousand bucks, they can't ferry everyone to the doctor all the time.
My biggest beef is that it would entitle people to the labor of another. Also, the statement has no limits, which is fundamentally unrealistic, so they should at least have the decency to change their catchphrase to "health care should be a human right until some nameless person in the giant government bureaucracy decides it's too much and that its no longer a right."
Here's the reality. In 2018, there were 985,026 licensed physicians in the USA. There are 330,150,668 people in the USA. Let's say everyone in the USA exercises their human right to an annual physical. If we say a physical takes 20 minutes, every doctor in the country would have to work 80 hours a week every week.
Leftists just sort of hijacked liberties into rights. Liberties are yours independently of government, and codifying them is just an attempt to limit government. These kind of rights to goods are codifying socialism.
Agreed.
It's a human right to have a government control what procedures you can get and when you can get them. 6 month waiting list for brain tumor removal in Canada. Denied hip replacements in the UK. Sorry, no asprin in Cuba for non-military non-tourists, here's a stick to bite on.