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Is access to healthcare a fundamental human right?

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Article 25 of the United Nations' 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services."
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plungesponge · 41-45, M
Here's my opinion: Rights can never be a black/white issue, because the right to any activity/resource always affects everyone else.

Access to healthcare should be a fundamental societal goal, but there is a point of diminishing returns where the energy needed to guarantee an outcome for every scenario eats into the energy needed to maintain the standard of rights in other areas and for other people.

Reasonable people can debate where the line should be drawn on what constitutes an appropriate level of healthcare, but the one rule I believe in is that the power of the decision making should be decentralized as much as possible to the local community, the people at the coalface of consequences always make better choices than some faceless thinktank