Is Healthcare a Right? [newyorker.com]

Alicia Doktor 9/27/174:00 AM

Is health care a right? The United States remains the only developed country in the world unable to come to agreement on an answer.

Earlier this year, I was visiting Athens, Ohio, the town in the Appalachian foothills where I grew up. The battle over whether to repeal, replace, or repair the Affordable Care Act raged then, as it continues to rage now. So I began asking people whether they thought that health care was a right. The responses were always interesting.

[For more on this story by Atul Gawande, go to https://www.newyorker.com/maga...-health-care-a-right]

llustration: A right doesn’t distinguish between the deserving and the undeserving, and, for many in my Ohio home town, that rankled. By Geoff McFetridge

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