Quote Originally Posted by rvg View Post
Because healthcare is not a right.
But here is the nub your constitution enshrines say the right to life or the right to happiness etc etc sickness infringes these rights.

Your obliged by your constitution to provide these self same services in an effort to attempt to address these failings.

If you choose to call it rights, entitlements or benefits is really of no consequence and rather misses the point that when an Irish or UK person says right they mean common good generally.