Sigh. Here we go again.
The 2016 Democratic Party platform proudly proclaimed, “We believe as Democrats that health care is a right, not a privilege.” In 2020, the party doubled down, saying, “We must guarantee health care, not as a privilege for some, but as a right for every single American.”
The drumbeat continued in the 2024 Democrat platform: “Health care should be a right in America, not a privilege.”
This is nothing new.
Decades before Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris began chanting the mantra, leftists all kinds have seemed to believe endlessly repeating “health care is a right” will somehow make it true.
But it’s not. And claiming it to be one is lazy, ignorant of natural law, or just plain deceptive.
It’s important to first clarify that proponents of health care being a right are ultimately advocating for…
