"What Just Happened?": a view from the State House (and other musings)

Health care: right or responsibility?

January 22, 2010

Tags: human right, health care

Vermont's vigorous populist movement for health care reform has rallied behind the slogan, "Health care is a human right." The unspoken follow-up is "and we demand our rights!" Demands generate a lot of energy.

But the language of demand doesn't speak to me as much as the language of civic responsibility. The language of demand (more…)