[alloysteel]

Health care has always been a responsibility, a duty, even, but never a “right”. To declare control of this part of your life to be a “right” is to relinquish any accountability for securing the very best care FOR YOURSELF to somebody else.

And the “somebody else” won’t be all that motivated. Especially when it becomes a dollar item, and therefore subject to rationing, or even denial.

[william clark]

Of course health care isn’t a right. Nothing can be a right that requires the active participation of another person in order for you to partake of it.

If health care was a right, then if it happened that nobody chose to be a doctor, nurse, etc., the government would be in the position of having to deprive a certain number of people of their freedoms by forcing them to become doctors, nurses, etc. in order to ensure someone else’s “right” to healthcare.

[mjp]

a majority of people originally supported the whole concept, that health care is a right.

This type of false right to man made goods and services involves a contradiction.If my right entails a right to your labor or its product, you cannot have a right to liberty or property.

[GOPJ]

The whole premise is, Edsall is voicing concern felt by many on the left that the larger liberal agenda of the redistribution of wealth, the redistribution of income is in trouble because Obamacare is not working and in fact may be turning voters against the concept.

Obamacare's so bad it's not even working for most of the poor...

[tet68]

If you don’t have a right to Life,
you certainly don’t have a right to health.