Leftists claim that "health care" - sometimes framed as "access to health care" ("access to" = "free") - is a "right."
I can go several weeks, maybe even months or years, without health care, but wouldn't last one week in wintery N. Dakota without housing.
Ergo (Leftist reasoning): "Housing" must be even more a "right."
Seriously: We Conservatives ought to insist that the "right to housing" be reformulated as the "right to force other people to purchase materials and build dwellings for ne'er-do-wells."
The "right to health care" could analogously be described as the "right to compel other people to undergo years of expensive training in order to provide unpaid services to ne'er-do-wells."
Regards,
Exactly. The rights laid out in the American Experiment are largely, for the most part, rights that don’t require someone else to perform. The right of free speech or self defense or freedom to assemble or worship etc. Some are just rights inherent to being human.
Leftists are clever. They will talk about “human rights” but what they don’t talk about is the sleight-of-hand going on here - Individual rights. In the leftist weltanschaung one is nothing unless part of a group, a “victimized” group. They also talk about minority rights, but again there is no greater minority than a single individual.
A “right” to health care sounds good. But it does require someone else to provide that. It requires money. It requires someone to allocate resources, as they are not infinite.
Price controls do not work. Whether minimum wage, subsidized fuel, doesn’t matter. While the alternative is not perfect, the leftist philosophy ever and always leaves complete destruction in its wake while enriching a small band of advocates and strongmen.
As has been said “You can vote Socialism in, but you have to shoot your way out.” Very sad.