Health Care as a Right

The Declaration of Independence declares life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to be inalienable rights. In 1943, FDR proposed a 'Second Bill o...

Isn't this a right that should never be tossed aside for any citizen of the United States? Consequently, shouldn't the Supreme Court provide us an indication that this notion exists as part of its decisions on the cases before it?

Since before the 2008 Democratic convention, I have written that health care should be a right for all Americans. Mind you, not in a legal or constit...

All the hoopla and media coverage regarding Obama's jobs speech before a joint session of Congress on September 8 shadowed two federal appeals court decisions rendered the same day, Commonwealth of Virginia v. Sebelius, and Liberty University v. Geithner.

The core issue for the 11th Circuit was whether requiring Americans to purchase health insurance from a private company without time limits was an activity that "substantially (affected) interstate commerce".

In ticking down down to the fail-safe date of Aug. 2, House Majority Leader John Boehner described in recent days the negotiations surrounding raising...

Juxtaposing the present negotiations on the debt ceiling with health care as a right displays a fecundity of thought that may well assist in the presently ongoing divide between slashing entitlements and raising revenues. Here's how.

An overwhelming amount has now been written in the pages of HuffPost about Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) proposed budget plan, so any additional words here ca...

Earlier this week, United States District Judge Roger Vinson of the Northern District of Florida (Pensacola) ruled the mandate to require all American...

Shouldn't being healthy be given the same pedestal as gun ownership?

What these fourteen senators are now proposing with the public option is health care reform's phoenix. Or, to put it another way, the final chapter on the public option has yet to be written.

Health care affects every single American, perhaps like no other area of human existence.

All Americans must know that the (American) way to create competition in the private market is to have a public offering -- a choice among choices.

We pay for water through various governmental and municipal sources, so why not the same for health care?

However we look at health care, one thing is certain: health care is universal to each and every human being in this country, regardless of power, position, gender, race or ethnicity.

So if America is already spending more on health care than anyone else and if America's health care technology is second-to-none, why isn't health care a fundamental right?

President Obama should declare health care a service for all Americans rather than a right.

Why should health care be a right? After all, it is not written in our Constitution that it is an inalienable right; it is not contained in the Bill of Rights either.