Is Health Care a Right or a Privilege?

  • Debate Team 1: Health Care is a Right.  You will present an argument that health care is a right via a substantial post in this discussion. You must use at least three scholarly sources, one of which can be the textbook, in providing evidence that supports this argument.
    • Responses to Team 2: You will post a rebuttal against two of your classmates who were on Team 2. Read through the posts and then refute two of your classmates’ arguments that health care is a privilege. Refer to elements in their original post as you rebut their points.
  • Debate Team 2: Health Care is a Privilege.  You will present an argument that health care is a privilege via a substantial post in this discussion. You must use at least three scholarly sources, one of which can be the textbook, in providing evidence that supports this argument.
    • Responses to Team 1: You will post a rebuttal against two of your classmates who were on Team 1. Read through the posts and then refute two of your classmates’ arguments that health care is a right. Refer to elements in their original post as you rebut their points.

 

 

 

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It is evident that the debate on health care being a right or a privilege is quite familiar though polarized due to many people who hold different beliefs on each side. I therefore am of the opinion that indeed health care is a right and not a privilege. If everybody has a right to life, then that includes health care as well since without health care, people will die and this can be considered as a violation of their right to life given that there was a possible method of preventing their death through health care (Campbell, 2014). If the government collects taxes from its people, then it is only fair and humane if some of the money collected in form of taxes be directed to providing health care to the people. Making health care a privilege would mean …

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