Number of Bills Await Obama’s Signature
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 30th, 2010 5:31 am by HL
Number of Bills Await Obama’s Signature
Is Health Care a ‘Right’ or Isn’t It?
Ross Kaminsky, The American Spectator
In an October, 2008 debate against John McCain, Barack Obama said that health care “should be a right for every American.”In rights parlance, his assertion is one of a “positive right” meaning that others may be compelled to provide a person's health care. This is distinguished from essentially every right laid out for Americans in our Constitution: these are “negative rights,” meaning that they proscribe others from inhibiting you from exercising your right but do not otherwise require active cooperation of others.