health care-- a right

Is health care a basic human right?

It isn't in the constitution, but then again, health care didn't really exist for the first 100 or more years of our country. No wonder the founders didn't mention it, it didn't exist.

Yet the same principles which underly the other fundamental rights (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness) also apply to health, and one can easily argue that poor health makes the fundamental rights difficult.

So an express purpose of government is to make sure that the people governed have a basic level of health care. This is a fact which is recognized by most of the world, but strangly not the US.

And that, my friend, is the end of the story.