Quote:So the right to life is only a yes/no thing.


If you are alive, that's all that matters. The quality of your life is of no concern?


I guess that's the literal interpretation.


I tend to disagree.


I think that living a shortened miserable life with a disease that is treatable is situation of a right denied.


I think most people agree. I think as you get older, your need for modern medicine increases. And living through a shortened golden years in pain and suffering the ailments of an aging body when treatments and medications are available is having a right to a positive life denied.

 

Food is a more immediate and pressing need, should we have national single payer grocery stores paid directly by the government through taxation? EBT For All?

 

So is homelessness, how about housing, a 3/2 on a quarter acre for everyone?

 

A car?

 

A job?

 

A mandatory Fit Bit and exercise regimen?

 

A Registered Dietician who reviews your daily intake and assesses tax penalties for over or improper consumption?

 

Because if healthcare financing is a human right then those real essentials are more so.

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