{"id":779,"date":"2009-10-25T15:26:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T20:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=779"},"modified":"2009-11-12T08:48:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T13:48:14","slug":"no-right-to-health-care-supplied-by-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2009\/10\/no-right-to-health-care-supplied-by-others\/","title":{"rendered":"No Right to Health Care Supplied by Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cafehayek.com\/2009\/10\/no-right-to-health-care-supplied-by-others.html\">No Right to Health Care Supplied by Others<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Genuine rights are negative, in the sense that they demand only that each of us refrains from harassing others.  Because each unit of health care requires labor and resources for its production, no one can have a \u2018right\u2019 to health-care in the same way that she can have a right to speak freely or to worship the God of her choice.  Enforcing Jones\u2019s \u2018right\u2019 to health care necessarily means forcing Smith to work to produce this health care.  A political \u2018right\u2019 that cannot even in principle exist without the confiscation of persons\u2019 labor and property is no right at all; it\u2019s a wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure about the phrasing of the first sentence (but I guess it is the same as applied to all people), but the rest rings quite true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Right to Health Care Supplied by Others: Genuine rights are negative, in the sense that they demand only that each of us refrains from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beliefs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-cz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}