"Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges. A careful reading of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution will not reveal any intrinsic right to health care, food or shelter. That’s because there isn’t any. This “right” has never existed in America"
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John Mackey: The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare - WSJ.com
Granted, his main objective is to sell food (he makes his pitch later in the article) but he has some good points. Many of the people that clamor for the “basic human right” of health insurance are the same people who have been ignoring the homeless for the past 30 years. What happened to those people’s “basic human right” of shelter?
