To the editor:
In November’s Enterprise a lady averred that “HEALTH CARE SHOULD BE A HUMAN RIGHT”. (Another entitlement, but at whose expense?) Health care, in reality, is a commodity, produced primarily by people called doctors. The lady doesn’t explain HOW we have some “right” to a doctor’s property, ie; his skill, labor, knowledge, and time. (which remains HIS property until he agrees to sell it) If we do have a “right” to the doctor’s property then it must follow that we have the same claim on a farmer’s property, the food he produces. (Since food is more vital to life than health care, then why don’t the left declare food a human right?) We have a right only to those things which we inherently possess, produce ourselves,or buy in free exchanges with others. Health care does not grow in nature, it is the product of human effort. (If we do have some imaginary “right” to a doctor’s property, then it must be ours by definition, obviating any need to pay him) One right all of us DO have is the right to take good care of our health in the first place (un-enumerated right in the 9th Amendment). In short, health care is NOT a human right, as it violates a doctor’s property rights. Government-run medicine is not an Enumerated Power of Congress and belongs at state level (or lower) per the 10th Amendment. Medicare-for-all would just be one more breeding ground for waste, fraud, and abuse, as ObamaCare so eloquently demonstrates.
Curt Raftshol Suttons Bay
