Don’t get me wrong, I’m not defending the current US healthcare system, it’s horrible and riddled with perverse incentives, and should be mostly (if not entirely) nationalized. I’m just not sure how to justify the idea that healthcare is a “right”.

I know that sometimes people on the left draw a comparison to the right to a public defender. I’m not sure that argument really holds up though, because you only have the right to a public defender under the specific circumstance of being prosecuted by the government for a crime. The logic there is “if the government is going to significantly interfere with your life by arresting you and trying you for a crime, then it at least has to allow you to get legal defense from a qualified attorney, even if you need the government to pay for it.” There’s not, like, a right to a publicly paid lawyer for any and all purposes.

  • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    tell them to stop relying on everyone and die in the woods

    being alive requires labor, those morons think without money there's no incentive to do things that keep us alive. the concept of just making food because we need it is beyond current thought.

    • Bjork_shhh [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      die in the woods

      relying on other peoples labor to rescue libertarians from bear attacks?