At the Objective Standard blog, Ari Armstrong writes:

[A]n alleged “right” to a good or service … obliterates the actual rights of individuals who are forced to provide that good or service. The government cannot concoct and enforce fake rights without violating real ones.

Does the fact that health care is not a right reduce it to a mere privilege … ? No. A privilege is a special favor granted by a government (or other party). Health care is not something that we properly obtain only at the government’s discretion.

Health care is neither a right nor a privilege, but a service.

Read more: No, Edolphus, Health Care is Not a “Right” or a “Privilege”.