Is healthcare a human right?

[Woodznutz]

If so, then sickness is a human legacy.

Good health is a human legacy, which mitigates the need for healthcare. Sadly, people prefer illness and healthcare to good health.

 

[jotathought]

If so, then sickness is a human legacy.

Good health is a human legacy, which mitigates the need for healthcare. Sadly, people prefer illness and healthcare to good health.

Being proactive and focusing on Wellness should be the goal of all Americans, and when you have 42 million people on SNAP, that's probably not top of mind, especially with what they are able to purchase.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

No

 

[Woodznutz]

No

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[braalian]

No

But if a society is enormously wealthy, not providing healthcare to the poor is kind of a dick move

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Is healthcare a human right?​

Only since about the 60's.

How did the human race survive for thousands of years without it?

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[Woodznutz]

No

But if a society is enormously wealthy, not providing healthcare to the poor is kind of a dick move

Many are poor because of unhealthy lifestyle choices resulting in the need for continuing expensive healthcare that few can afford. A preventable vicious cycle.

 

[Oddball]

If so, then sickness is a human legacy.

Good health is a human legacy, which mitigates the need for healthcare. Sadly, people prefer illness and healthcare to good health.

 

[Oddball]

No

But if a society is enormously wealthy, not providing healthcare to the poor is kind of a dick move

Waving a gun in your face to provide something for for someone else is a bigger dick move.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

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Simple concept that so few understand.

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[Woodznutz]

No

But if a society is enormously wealthy, not providing healthcare to the poor is kind of a dick move

The poor need education and motivation, whether they like it or not.

 

[braalian]

Waving a gun in your face to provide something for for someone else is a bigger dick move.

So who’s waving guns in people’s faces?

 

[Oddball]

So who’s waving guns in people’s faces?

Quit paying your taxes and you'll find out.

 

[braalian]

The poor need education and motivation, whether they like it or not.

Sure, I agree

Denying them basic healthcare is obviously not reasonable

 

[Captain Caveman]

If so, then sickness is a human legacy.

Good health is a human legacy, which mitigates the need for healthcare. Sadly, people prefer illness and healthcare to good health.

Is healthcare a human right

Nothing is a human right. In a society with a government, the government allows you to do certain things. Those deemed as very important that the government can't take away, society calls them a human right.

When surviving on a deserted beach; wild animals, the weather, food supply, bacteria etc.. doesn't give two hoots with what we call human rights.

 

[MisterBeale]

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[Woodznutz]

Sure, I agree

Denying them basic healthcare is obviously not reasonable

Basic healthcare is education. Doctors don't do this and insurance doesn't cover it.

 

[Oddball]

Basic healthcare is education. Doctors don't do this and insurance doesn't cover it.

You can devolve that even farther: health care is a series of individual choices.

 

[braalian]

Is education a human right? Safe roads? Clean water?

All civilized societies provide (or aim to) these basic services.

And, yes, the mechanism for providing these things has always been some variation of levying a tax on the citizens and using that money.

Have a better way? Slavery? Volunteerism? Cooperate sponsorship? Good luck.

 

[Seymour Flops]

If so, then sickness is a human legacy.

Good health is a human legacy, which mitigates the need for healthcare. Sadly, people prefer illness and healthcare to good health.

If I may, some sincerely constructive criticism.

Your title does not tell us what you want to discuss.

A better one would be "Healthcare vs. Good Health," or some such.

I feel like I should respond twice, once to the title and once to the body.

Is healthcare a human right?​

Yes and no.

Yes, everyone has a right to seek healthcare. No one should ever block a person from a doctor's office, clinic or hospital and if the government were to do so, that would be a serious violation of their human right to seek healthcare and obtain it from those willing to provide it.

But I assume that is not what you meant?

No, because human rights are negative rights, such as the right not to be tortured, the right not to be exterminated in a genocide, the right not be be imprisoned without proof of a crime, the right not to have speech interfered with, etc. There is no "human right" to have others do things for you, such as paying for your healthcare, or clean water, or foodcare, or any of the other goods and services that certain types claim must be provided them in order not to violate their human rights.

If so, then sickness is a human legacy.

Good health is a human legacy, which mitigates the need for healthcare. Sadly, people prefer illness and healthcare to good health.

I have to assume that you are male to say that.

Once I got married, I quickly realized how much healthcare women require, even when they have very good health. My wife was very healthy when I married her, young, fit from being a cross country athlete and riding her bike to work and to horse lessons. She grew up in a family that avoided overly salty or fatty foods, and ate primarily a mediteranian diet. Healthy as the proverbial horse.

She goes to the doctor way more than I ever did, with my unhealthy eating habits. If a woman does not regularly go to the doctor and does not experience the need for healthcare, I would chalk that up to lucky coincidence.