Because inalienable rights are granted to all of us at the moment of our birth, some would argue even at the moment of conception. The right to life. The right to choices. The right to property ownership. The right to better one's life. These are rights the Founders spoke to in the Declaration of Independence and they went on to rightly declare that it's the obligation of government to protect these rights which are inseparable from all of humanity. While good health is instrumental in a person's ability to better their own life, we don't have a right to it. Unalienable rights do not guarantee equal outcomes. Politicians promise equal outcomes and never deliver on those promises. Rather politicians create laws that create artificial rights for some at the expense of others and call it equal for everyone. This is an infringement on the inalienable rights of some to the benefit of others. The difference between an inalienable right and a govt created 'right' is that the former requires no sacrifice from one individual to another in order that it be exercised. If health care were an unalienable right, a patient could walk into a doctor's office, demand and receive service, and leave without being legally obligated to make any payment whatsoever. So when Bernie Sanders says that health care should be a right and not a privilege he's lying because what he's saying simply isn't possible. Health care like everything else we benefit from in a market economy is a payed for service, whether or not it's paid by individuals or insurance, or a combination of both. No compensation to providers, no health care. Inalienable rights are free, when a 'right' has to be paid for it's not a right, but rather it's a product or a service. So in closing I'll tie together the relationship between an inalienable right and health care. Among the rights listed in the Declaration of Independence is the right to pursue happiness. Applying that to healthcare, it's accurate to say that people have the right to seek out and obtain the best possible health care within their means.....and that's where it ends. There are no guarantees in life and government cannot create them.
