Do you believe that access to healthcare is a right or a privilege?

Healthcare is a right that all individuals should have whether they are poor or wealthy. Every citizen pays taxes and most of them are employed; so it is only right that the government also make sure that everyone is offered ways to maintain their health in good standing. I do not think that healthcare should ever be considered as something that is a privilege, because everyone needs some type of minor or serious healthcare during their life. It’s not right to say that just because a person can afford healthcare then they should be the only ones receiving it. Personally, I feel that everybody deserves an opportunity at healthcare. Poor individuals or minorities do not ask to be in the disadvantaged positions that they have been placed in by society or hardships. Canada and the United Kingdom’s governments provide a limited amount of acceptable health care to all their citizens. The United States should provide this opportunity to its citizens due to the differing levels of socioeconomic status that exists today, because the lower class is put in a bad position when it comes to illness and healthcare. Every citizen contributes to the government in some manner and it is only right that healthcare be kept at an affordable rate so that all individuals can receive healthcare when it is necessitated.