What is healthcare in the first place?
Is it a right—something to which all people are entitled regardless of income, job status, age, or health?
Or is it a consumer good—a service that’s meant to be bought and sold on the market?
Approached from an entirely secular, political perspective, this is, admittedly, a complex question worthy of debate. However, for any Catholic, the answer should be a pretty simple.
Healthcare is a right. It absolutely is. And that’s not my opinion, but the position of the Church.