Health care in a national health program: a fundamental right

Do or should Americans have a right to health care or some appropriate level of it? To explore this difficult and complex question, we must say something about rights and ways to justify them; about considerations which favor a right to health care; about what level and kind of care the right may involve; and about what can be said against such a right. We believe that a right to a decent level of health care should be recognized and enacted in public policy.