Forbes April 15, 2024
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Speaking to supporters in North Carolina late last month, Vice President Kamala Harris said, “We here agree that access to healthcare should be a right and not just a privilege of those who can afford it.”

President Biden picked up the thread when he joined Harris on stage, saying he envisioned “a future where healthcare is a right”—a future he hopes to build by expanding Obamacare.

Declaring health care a right does not make it so. Health care is a suite of goods and services, subject to the laws of supply and demand, just like everything else in our economy.

The current occupants of the White House are hardly the first people to declare a right to health care. The...

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