Straight from the United Nations, the world's largest inter-governmental organization: [quote]Calls upon Member States to ensure that health financing systems evolve so as to avoid significant direct payments at the point of delivery and include a method for prepayment of financial contributions for health care and services as well as a mechanism to pool risks among the population in order to avoid catastrophic health-care expenditure and impoverishment of individuals as a result of seeking the care needed[/quote] [quote]Urges Governments, civil society organizations and international organizations to promote the inclusion of universal health coverage as an important element in the international development agenda [/quote] So in plain English, the United Nations a few years back, officially endorsed the concept of universal healthcare as a human right, regardless of where you live, who you are, what your financial status is etc. It is also important to remember that the United States is the last country of the 35 currently industrialized, modern nations, to not have some form of single-payer or universal healthcare https://truecostblog.com/2009/08/09/countries-with-universal-healthcare-by-date/. So to answer the original question, yes. healthcare is indeed a right of all citizens. Times are changing, and the United States needs to catch up to the rest of the world.