Unlimited medical care? When, where, and for whom? These are good and worthwhile, and in fact unavidable questions. We'll have to pursue the answers --- dead serious --- in the near future.
But meanwhile, I just want to make two comments in the context of this article:
- I don't know of anybody--anybody--- who says "unlimited medical care" is a right, or even a goal, for anybody. "Heroic" or highly complex and expensive interventions, are always (in moral terms) optional, and sometimes actually morally wrong.
- This article is focusing on something quite different, a universal and mandatory form of "ordinary" care: water. Not Hyper-techno-pharmaco-whizbang multibucks medical marvels. Water.
Except for those who can no longer physically process water (e.g. irreversible multi-organ shutdown, death being imminent) it is always morally required. By sippy-cup, by IV drip, by ice chips, by wet fingers applied to the lips and tongue. Water.