The entire point of the State is to protect it's citizens. For what other reason would men band together, adhere to specified values and customs, and even accept the authority of another human being, if not for the compact of mutual assistance when any individual's physical existence is imperiled?
Sovereignty is held by the people, a principle established and reaffirmed at the creation of each State. Therefore if a State can not or will not provide for the health of its citizens, it is a sick State- a State with dying, or at best corrupt, Sovereignty. Government must at all times be most concerned with the health, and implicitly well-being, of its citizenry. The physical safety of its members is so essential to a State that it must monopolize the legitimate use of coercive force, granting us a military and police, in order to secure its borders from external threat and to ensure that its members do not harm one another.
The very concept of private property exists in order to protect the physical existence of individuals within society. In other words, private property is sacred to us because it is a source of health. The first man to have raised a fence, did so with the desire of ensuring nutrition-delineating and protecting a small patch of land for personal agriculture.
The very legitimacy of the State rests on its willingness and capacity to provide for the safety of its members, because no structure can withstand the test of time if built on a poor foundation.
"Free" Universal Health-Care is not an option, but a necessity of good-governance. The devil is in the details.
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