How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life
Medical care is a commodity, and aren’t we all often faced with commodities we cannot afford?<p>People who cannot afford medical care have no right to demand it from anyone. Maybe someone will be empathetic enough to offer charity; friends and family may choose to band together and fund a sick person’s medical care. But even a poor person’s necessity does not change the fact that healthcare is a service and a good provided by a third party.<p>No matter how much some starving kid needs food, he doesn’t have a right to steal someone’s wallet or hold up the local convenience store to obtain it. If I were in that position, maybe I’d end up choosing to steal since it’s the least immoral choice under the circumstances, but that does not make it a moral choice, or suggest that I have not violated someone‘s rights in pursuing my own needs.