Health Care - It Has Become a Right

Years and years of entitlement mentality have so corrupted our view regarding our rights that we now as a nation believe that health care is a right. I believe it is just a matter of time that as a whole we will accept this as fact and it will be one more in a slow series of paradigm shifts that take us eventually from being a nation that treasures freedom to one that treasures comfort and being taken care of.

Here’s a good article written by Leonard Peikoff, Ph.D., delivered at a Town Hall Meeting on the Clinton Health Plan in 1993.

Health Care is Not a Right

It gives some good illustration as to why health care is not a right provided for in our Constitution. Sadly, I believe the tide of popular opinion has turned against this way of thinking as the argument is not whether health care is a right or not, but rather what kind of health care reform do we need to insure this right. Health care will not be the last item that will become a ‘right’ for the American people.