As I have previously stated, there is NO RIGHT to health care. It isn’t in the Constitution. Just like there’s no right for food, clothing, water, shelter, or anything else that comes from the hands of someone else. It’s not in the Constitution because if it were, then the very first right that is granted in the Constitution would be moot. Article I, Section 8, the founders provided Congress the power to create an environment for creativity and industrial impulse by “securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.”
Anything else is just stealing from someone else to give to another. That’s not freedom.
Rights and Wrongs by Edward Morrissey
The current health-care debate may produce some of the best civics lessons given in the United States for several decades – if we can get the media to challenge one of the underlying assumptions of government-run health-care advocates. It’s a sound bite we hear repeatedly from supporters of Obama’s health-care reform proposal, and one we sometimes hear from its opponents when they try to sound reasonable. The UN even got into the act with a declaration not long ago, insisting that health care was a basic human right.
It may sound harsh, and it may sound “unreasonable,” but health care is not a right, at least in the terms understood in the American experience. In fact, the insistence that health care is a right contradicts the basic fabric of liberty: property rights.
Truth, Lies and In Between 