[Kleon]

We can sit for hours and discuss what a right is, and whether people have a right to health care, or whether it's an entitlement. What really matters, though, is the fact that health care is a necessity, like food and water, things that give life. We do have a right to life, right?

[socialismisinsidious]

yes, of course but does that mean I should be able to go down to the local grocery store and get my food for free? how about free water?
Remember:"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away."

[Jim Noble]

What really matters, though, is the fact that health care is a necessity, like food and water, things that give life.

Misleading as to food and water, not true as to gives life.

Food and water are true necessities. If you don't obtain them, you die.

Yet they are not free. Not anywhere, not here. You have to bust your ass to get them, and nobody is interested in your bitching if you can't get enough or the kind that you want.

"Health" care sometimes extends the life your parents and God gave you. It does not, by itself, give you life, and there are many, many circumstances when as much "health" care as you can buy or can pursuade others to buy for you won't extend your life by a nanosecond.

Your right to life means no one can kill you without just cause. It does not mean that if you have metastatic ovarian cancer or a brain tumor that someone else's children or elderly parents should (or even can) go without so you can buy more life.

You can't buy more. It's not available.

[k2blader]

We do have a right to life, right?

Many Democrats and some Republicans would disagree.

[NYC GOP Chick]

We can sit for hours and discuss what a right is, and whether people have a right to health care, or whether it's an entitlement. What really matters, though, is the fact that health care is a necessity, like food and water, things that give life. We do have a right to life, right?

Do you get food and water for free and on demand?

[upcountryhorseman]

It is your responsiblity to take care of
yourself, not the taxpayer. There are many ways to provide for illness and injury even though you don't have a lot of money. Kaiser offers individual health plans at a reasonable
price. You can obtain catastrophic health insurance with a
high deductible and put the amount of the deductable in a
savings account.

[KendraSJ]

The right to life means you have the right not to be killed. Not that you have the right to force someone to go to the ends of the earth to postpone your immenent death.