A Resolution to Amend the Constitution to Establish the Right to Healthcare

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "A Resolution to Amend the Constitution to Establish the Right to Healthcare". Your opponent's style: Josh

Without healthcare people will perish. This worsens the country and other countries so it. So why can’t we

You're making a classic emotional appeal, but let's talk reality. People aren't "perishing" en masse from lack of healthcare access - we already have emergency rooms that can't legally turn anyone away, Medicaid for the poor, and Medicare for seniors. What you're really arguing for is unlimited healthcare as a constitutional right, which would bankrupt the nation. Look at what happened when we tried this with the VA - veterans dying on waiting lists while bureaucrats got bonuses. Now imagine that incompetence applied to 330 million Americans. A constitutional right to healthcare means government-controlled healthcare, and government controls nothing well.We already spend 17.6% of our entire GDP on healthcare [1] - more than any nation on earth. Making healthcare a constitutional right would push that to over 20%, crippling every other government function. Want education? Infrastructure? Defense? Too bad - the healthcare monster devours everything. Countries with "free" healthcare ration care through waiting lists, not prices. In Canada, median wait time for specialist treatment is 25 weeks. In the UK, over 6 million people wait for surgery. Your constitutional right becomes a constitutional promise to wait in line while bureaucrats decide if you're worth treating. The cruel irony? Despite spending nearly 18% of GDP, the U.S. has the lowest life expectancy and highest death rates for treatable conditions [1] among developed nations. More government control won't fix a system that's already drowning in regulations and bureaucracy - it'll make it worse.