Why Healthcare Is a Right and Not a Privilege

         Actually let me reword the title statement into a question:  Why is healthcare a right and not a privilege?  Or better yet:  Why do many people think that healthcare is a right and not a privilege?  It would be nice to have all healthcare provided with convenience with no co-pays or prescription costs.  We all deserve to live healthy high quality lives, don't we?  Healthcare is a right!

        But why stop there?  Isn't housing a right that we all deserve?   If government provided a basic standard housing allowance then no one would be homeless.  Those who wanted to work a little harder could add their own funds to upgrade, but everyone would have an adequate place to live no matter what their situation.

         Since we all have a right to life then shouldn't we be guaranteed food?   We have to have food to survive.  Government should probably make free food available to everyone and I mean beyond all of the free food programs that are now available. 

          Transportation is an essential need in today's world so that must be included as a right.  Every person in the country should be given a car or whatever allowance they needed to get them places.  Also computers and internet.  Television is a right so everyone should be given their own TV sets.  Phones too.  Sounds fair to me.  Then add to all of these a basic income--maybe $10,000 per year for example--that the government provided to everyone in the U.S.   You could live quite well without even working.

          We could surely list many more products and services that each citizen of the great United States should have courtesy of the government.  This should probably also include illegal entrants to the country who have been living here for more than a few days.  The government has so much money to do all of these great things.

          The money is there isn't it?   Well, they can always make more when they need it, right?