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here's a sentence that utterly baffles me: "healthcare is a right."

healthcare should be a right guaranteed in a modern democratic nation state

is how to read it I guess

it's still nonsense in the american system. We don't guarantee positive rights.

they mean it should be a government entitlement like social security is my guess

i said it, therefore reality

seriously

"going to the moon is a right"

government entitlement = right pretty much

it's just semantics otherwise

rather than try to break down the emotionalism or absurdism of the symbol

it seems a better idea to me to construct the middle position out of it

to see if that is workable, sensible etc.

well, it stops being a semantics issue when it comes to congressional funding and judicial review. A right gets different judicial review than a mere entitlement program.

but I agree with you broadly, I have no problem with a middle ground

if the supreme court interpreted "life, liberty, pursuit of happiness" to include the right to healthcare it would have markedly different effects than just going to single payer healthcare by a law enacted by congress

why dont peope just call it the way it is "i think government should pay for people's healthcare"

why do shitlibs just have to state everything in abstract ideological maxims

because "right" sounds better than "entitlement" i guess

it's the same on both sides, it's how people think

and also, they make it a moral issue

yeah

as it follows from their first principles

and for that matter so does the opposition, because similar first principle issues

American healthcare is a big, rotten, corrupt mess, perhaps partially by design

Positive rights are cancer

healthcare in particular is worrying because it's not a demand that can be satisfied

you can spend infinite money on it and everyone will still die

@The Enlightened Shepherd how else do you ideologically subvert the base culture?

you're stretching it to absurdity @UOC

be fair

of course everyone will die

Point is, scarcity exists for it

I work in the NHS, it is a big mess too

I am, but it's already one of our biggest budget items here.

but I can see at the same time, it has considerable merits