From Zogby:
UTICA, New York – U.S. adults of different political ideologies have extremely different views about the nation’s healthcare system, according to a new Zogby International interactive poll. Overall 63% rate the U.S. healthcare system as excellent or good, but only 43% give those combined high marks to the system’s value. Forty-seven percent believe that affordable healthcare is a right, and 30% say it is a privilege. Another 20% believe it is neither….
The differences based on party affiliation are so sharp that Democrats are 10 times more likely to rate the nation’s healthcare system as poor than are Republicans, and eight times more likely to say healthcare is a right.
If health care is a right, does that mean the government can’t prohibit me from buying more than it chooses to provide for me? Or that it can’t prohibit me from taking drugs that show promise but haven’t been approved by the FDA? That makes more sense to me than “I have a right to have other people provide me goods and services.”