Healthcare is a Right, Agree or Disagree?

[Bursche]

Healthcare is a privilege, not a right. It can be used as a tool to help promote other rights, such as the right to life and the right to be a "healthy" individual in order to live.

" Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control."

From the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The standard of medical services provided to all humans is of necessity, and universal healthcare covers more than just necessity, as prescriptions and other non-essential medical procedures are contained. Universal Healthcare for the terminally ill is already in effect I believe in most countries.

While I agree that universal healthcare should be incorporated to encourage the right to a healthy life, it is not a right in itself. The US can afford for this privilege of healthcare, but most of the rest of the world can't afford Universal Healthcare, and struggle fulfilling the rest of the already large list of human rights already accepted. Lets focus on making the standard of human rights already set now accomplished before adding anymore. The essential right to life is still not accomplished in many countries.