Who has a Right to Health Care?

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Who has a right to health care?
Everyone has a right to healthcare. Every person has the right to receive the best medical care the world has to offer. There should not be barriers to healthcare or factors introduced to make it difficult for some people to access healthcare. The only requirement or condition should be that someone is a human being and thus deserves the best medical attention regardless of where they are. Healthcare is not an aspect that is limited by geography or finances. By virtue of belonging to the human race, every person should be accorded the right to healthcare. There have been instances when people have been denied their fundamental rights mainly because of what Light (25) categorical inequalities. Light (25) notes that “rules of access and coverage of medical costs embody categorical inequality.” The implication of the above is that some people end up being discriminated against and denied their inherent right to healthcare. What follows are instances of blame game where no one wants to be answerable and truthfully speak on the evil or sin of denying people their right to great healthcare.
How do we decide this question here in the United States?
In the U.S., the right to healthcare is limited to people who have money. The healthcare system in the U.S. is designed to stifle the right to healthcare while allowing the development, growth, and enrichment of a manipulative health insurance system that denies people their fundamental right. Even though the U.S. has been at the forefront in championing for people’s right to life all over the world, the country appears not to subscribe to its policies within its boundaries. In the U.S. system, the health insurance system exploits people while hoarding healthcare opportunities in order to “extract ‘rents’ for granting access to a scarce resource” (Light, 25). Medical services are n...