Biden And Harris Are Wrong About Healthcare “Rights”

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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.

Click to read the full article in Forbes.

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