There are very few of what are considered first world nations that don't provide some form of Universal Healthcare. In Spain the right to healthcare is even written in to the constitution.
Do you think they are wrong for doing so?|||No they are not wrong. It is a matter of degree.
The dirty little secret is that the US also provides "some form of universal healthcare". No person entering a US emergency room is going to be turned away from life saving medicine due to lack of funds.|||Other first world nations have realized the long-term benefits of providing preventive medicine to their citizens, as well as the moral imperative to care for their citizens. Unfortunately, the US government likes to discuss morality, but we don't like to be questioned about the details of how we implement justice for our own people.|||If that's what the people want, then they should get it. Protecting the health of citizens is the same as protecting your house from fires or robberies. It is a free service.|||Of course, they are. A right exists independent of the government. I have the right to speak. Nobody has to take action to give me that right.
Healthcare is not a right in that it requires action by someone else to receive it.|||I hope not. I work in the UK's universal healthcare system!
As for the US, what you do is up to you, the US electorate. What you should be aware of though are the facts. US healthcare costs more than it does in Western Europe, and you get a worse service. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care鈥?/a> Infant mortality is higher in the USA than it is in western Europe, and life expectancy is shorter in the US.
The NHS in the UK has its problems, we have waiting lists for routine operations. But it costs us less to have it, than it does for you to have your system. Even if we take out private insurance.
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