Ella Valentine
6 min readJun 19, 2019

The Best Things in Life Are Free — The Road to Universal Health Care

We all agree that health is the most important thing in the world and yet so many times I have heard of and read about the following debate “Is healthcare a right or a privilege?” especially in the American press. I am going to try to not even address this “question” in my article below. Asking if healthcare is a right is the same as asking if LIFE is a right. I would say this: life IS a right and we are all privileged to be living it. Health is a right and we SHOULD be all privileged to be granted its f r e e, or at least affordable care.