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Is healthcare a fundamental human right? Should it be?
Meaning healthcare interpreted in a broad sense, including organ transplantation and other non-basic treatments, but with the exception of certain elective treatments (e.g. beauty/cosmetic)
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Healthcare is not a fundamental human right, because prior to the creation of a hospital, the responsibility of providing drugs didn't fall on anyone. It's only because we have hospitals, that we expect treatments to be given to us. People give sick people healthcare, because it is their job to, and not because it is their responsibility to.
Think about it.
We can give people food and shelter, because we have those tangible things, so we can give them.
We can give people freedom of speech and no pain, because we can do by doing nothing, leaving them be.
We cannot give people healthcare, because it is either expensive, research intensive, or requires intense knowledge.
Healthcare is an artificial construct that humans created.
Good health is not something that human beings are supposed to be guaranteed. It is something that the first humans were not given the right to, in their life.
The only reason why healthcare is a human right, is because our modern society has constructed healthcare, so that we can be guaranteed and given the right to that. It's not a human right, but we have made it a human right.
Life is like a play because we all have our part. If you don't play your part, your part will get played. If your part ends, it's because it was supposed to end. If you have a beneficial right taken away from you, you are supposed to get it back. If the right you want you do not have, and you never had it in the first second of you being alive, it unfortunately is not a fundamental human right.
What you're supposed to do is change the rules of the play and make it a human right.
I would say that healthcare is a human right, but I wouldn't call it a fundamental human right.