Is Health Care a Right? or a Priviledge?

If politics is a religion, than the Claremont Review of Books would be my bible. The Claremont Review of Books is a quarterly publication put out by the Claremont Institute, which I consider one of the two epicenters of the conservative intelligentsia (the Manhattan Institute being the other).

Readers of this blog will probably notice quickly that I post a lot of articles from each issue. I consider the article below required reading, as it contains valuable information about the future of the health care debate.

Is Health Care a Right?

"....despite attempts by liberals to translate economic "rights" into civil rights like freedom of speech, America has never enshrined this concept into law. If one were to follow liberal thinking on health care to its logical conclusion, the government would also be obliged to buy a newspaper company or television or radio station for anyone wishing to exercise freedom of the press; pay the costs of petition-gatherers for those who wish to exercise their right to petition the government; purchase firearms for those wishing to exercise their right to keep and bear arms; pay for a church, synagogue, or mosque, on behalf of those wishing to exercise their right to worship as they please. Of course, several of these "rights" would collide with the right of citizens not to be forced to pay for the propagation of beliefs not their own. But the contradiction would be no greater than that between a right to government health care and the natural right of citizens to enjoy the fruits of their own labor."