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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-08 09:05 PM
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7. I don't have any such case...
but the two things are still not related in any way.

Is health care a right? Well, in every state I know of, emergency rooms are required to treat emergency health needs, at least to the extent that the patient is stabilized. If you wish, you could consider those laws as establishing some sort of right.

Of course, a guy could take the ill patient to the hospital and hold the staff at gunpoint until the patient was treated and cured, I suppose. It has happened. It rarely turns out well.

Bearing arms is a constitutional right. You are correct, there, although the SCOTUS has ruled that the right may be subject to legislative restrictions in some situations.

Health care is governed by legislative action. I expect that basic medical care will be a right by legislation fairly soon.
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