Here’s one that I hear a lot: “We’re the richest country in the world, yet we don’t provide health care for all of our citizens. That’s unconscionable!”

Embedded in the “That’s unconscionable!” part of the argument is an implicit statement that health care is a right. But a right for whom? For Americans? Why Americans? Why not Mauritanians, Serbians, Cambodians, and so on and so forth? If “health care is a right” is taken to its logical Read more