Right, Health Care, Organicism

As has been previously discussed, a Right is a symbolic prohibition of interference in an activity of its bearer, not some inherent real property.  Thus, it is not applicable where a deficiency is due to mere neglect.  For example, the Right to an adequate standard of living, as included in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, must presuppose as a cause an act of deprivation, e. g. alienation of a worker's products of their own labor, greedy seizing and hoarding of resources, etc.  But, such diagnoses are more difficult in the case of a Right to Health Care.  Accordingly, proponents of single-payer universal Health Care would do well to abandon that rhetorical tack, which is gaining little traction in the U. S. anyhow, in favor of the argument that insofar as a Society is only as strong as its weakest member, the health of each is in the interest of each.  In other words, advocates should jettison an Atomist argument, and replace it with one derived from an Organicist principle.