healthcare is a human right

>>127939825
People get sick through bad habits and choices, in a country like america it's better if parents pay for their child's health and education, and everyone else pays for themselves.

Then again, all currency now is fiat so numbers don't matter anymore.

>>127941149
Okay Australia

>>127939825
Yes of course, the government cannot stop you from getting healthcare. You have a right to have healthcare.

>>127941149
Did you even look at the chart?
America is already paying more in public funding (see: taxes) for healthcare per capita than most countries that have civilized healthcare.

>>127939825
Then take care of YOUR health.

>>127939825

>QUALITY, UNIVERSAL COVERAGE, AFFORDABLE

In real life Anon, you have to pick two.

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>>127939825
Obviously.
>tfw Americans should really know better and join the civilised world

Healthcare is a commodity. Declaring a commodity a right does not suddenly make thousands of doctors and pills materialize from thin air. Even if you forced all the doctors in this country into slave labor, making them work 18 hour days, and forced them to serve everyone, there would still be people who are missed.

The fact is, that, like all commodities, healthcare has a cost, comprised of people's time and resources. In order to improve care, the solution is not to mandate treatment for everyone, which balloons costs and solves nothing, but rather to make healthcare more free than it currently is. Allowing people to buy insurance across state lines, getting rid of all intellectual property law that allows pharmaceutical companies to set exorbitant prices for drugs, and removing all mandates will make the cost of care plummet.

"But wait, muh preexisting conditions"! In a truly free market where competition is allowed in the drug industry, cost of treatment for these conditions plummets as competitors emerge. This allows insurers to be much less wary about such conditions. Of course, this won't work for everyone. But if you are too stupid to buy care when you're healthy, society has no obligation to care for you when you are sick. "But muh genetic conditions"! For these cases, which are extremely rare, private charity already provides the solution. You can literally walk into any nonprofit hospital across the nation and get treated, because those hospitals are funded with literal hundreds of millions of dollars.

>>127939825
all inclusive month long European vacations are a human right

>>127939825
a $40,000 car is a human right

>>127939825
a Nintendo 64 is a human right

>>127939825
morning coffee is a human right

>>127941549

This. Americans have a right to bear arms but the government doesn't pay for it.

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You're paying for me, right?

>>127939825
healthcare is only a right if the health system is on lockdown. Free healthcare doesn't make sense in a society of even more freedoms, like the freedom to fuck yourself up.
Enjoy food too much, obesity, you don't deserve free healthcare.
Enjoy drugs too much, druggie, you don't deserve free healthcare.
Enjoy doctor patient confidentiality? you don't deserve free healthcare.

Free healthcare would require no doctor patient confidentiality, no drug abuse, and no self-inflicted health problems.

The latter two would require more authority to enforce, ergo less freedoms.

You can't have everything.