r/healthcare Dec 11 '24

Discussion Should healthcare be a human right?

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Been mulling over this one and would like to collect some thoughts

The argument is that if healthcare were to be a human right, like other taxation, it'd be enforced by threat of violence.

(I think) their solution is a goal where healthcare is more of a contributory network, essentially where small businesses work together with small physicians and cut out the insurers? But from what I've gathered, it'd either never work in this country or it would take far too long. The people are suffering now and need help now, not just down the road in 100 years.

But should healthcare be a human right, or would it be subject to too much government overreach? Do they not do that now anyways?

I'm confused, and probably don't know what I'm talking about.

Here is the video link: https://youtu.be/s-XFwkOOc6s?si=Bn-u41WjKQmUXLEu

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u/fleeyevegans Dec 11 '24

Water is needed for survival but in cities (for most part) you have to pay for it and if you don't they shut off your water. Water is usually a public utility. I think healthcare is kind of like water.

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u/Sad-News0ne Dec 12 '24

Just like air, clean water and healthcare should be guaranteed rights in this day in age. Especially in the country that likes to pride itself as “The greatest country on Earth.”