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.
I understand they still have, and enjoy wage slavery as well as imperialism. I meant it in the framing of chattel slavery, which deep down they still desire whether they realize it or not. They know however that openly wanting what people identify as slavery is unacceptable. So they try to strawman the position of socialized medicine as a perversion of "freedoms". My analogy is just me trying to diagnose their
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