Regardless of methods of delivery, funding, access issues, overall cost, for profit - not for profit .... any debate about how best to provide healthcare IMO begins with the the answer to one fundamental question that defines a nation's values:
Is basic healthcare a right of citizenship like the right to vote (you're a citizen, you get it) or is it not?
Until there is a national consensus on that question, the other issues become very difficult to reconcile and the debate can be very tangled - again, IMO.
So, who thinks it's a right, and who thinks it isn't?
