Many claim that health care is a right and by that they mean access to health care services. The people who claim this mean well but frequently have not considered the full implication of their position.
Health care services are provided by people who have acquired education and training to do what they do. To claim that health care is a right is to claim that we have a right to their labor and a right implies that we are entitled to it even if we can not pay. That is not a position most people are comfortable with at its logical conclusion.
The alternative would be to say that we support providing people the means to access health care, so we are not forcing professionals to work for free but we are going to pay them but make sure each citizen has the means to pay. What does that mean? It means we will either force insurance companies to insure people who can not pay the premiums or we will force tax payers to be the medical bill. At the end of the day it still required force.
Unless we can devise a way to provide health care that does not require force, it is not a moral position to claim it is a right. Do you agree?
By the way this is not a trivial debate it is happening in the U.S. Senate currently