Healthcare is not a right. But I don't think anyone should die.

It seems like the vast majority of Americans believe that healthcare is a right. But if healthcare is a right then so is healthcare for dogs and cats and parakeets and cows and chickens and pigs and sheep and turkeys and ducks. Right now, I'm sitting in my warm house with electricity and heat and lights and internet and a phone and a laptop and a fridge and a car and clothes and shoes/boots and countless other "rights". But if healthcare is a right, then so is all of the above. We all have food. We all have clothes. But I don't believe that food and clothes are a right. I don't think it's right to pay for a service, but I do think that my government should provide for its citizens. We have welfare, food stamp, housing stamp, disability - we all know that everyone is not covered and there are holes in those systems. But I also do not think that everyone has the right to healthcare. I don't think that everyone has the right to food or clothes or cars or internet or phones. I do believe that all of us should have those things.<br><br>&#x200B;<br><br>Healthcare is not a right, but it should be covered. What a terrible system we have that no one wants to just pay each other to do what is right. I do not care if my insurance company loses money. I do not care if my doctor loses money. I do not care about healthcare - I care about being healthy. If the doctors and insurance companies can't figure out how to keep me healthy without a medical bankruptcy (my father lost his home to a $40k medical bill that insurance didn't cover even though he had insurance!), then maybe we need to rethink how we do things. But the reality is that there is no good solution. We can't just give everyone "free" healthcare. It's not free. We pay for it. It should just be provided as a service. This is the US, and we should be able to figure out how to make it a service instead of a right. We can't just throw money at it, but we need to throw money at it. I want everyone to have access to healthcare so that we can all be healthy.<br><br>I don't want to pay for it. I don't want to pay for my kid's food and schools and clothes and phones and cars and college. I wouldn't pay for any of those things, but they are all important. I don't want to pay for police officers and firefighters and a military. I didn't want to pay for a wall. I don't want to pay for a whole bureaucracy. But I do.<br><br>&#x200B;<br><br>&#x200B;