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So perhaps the right to health care is more important than the right to vote?
I think the right to health care is about this, ultimately: human dignity.
Human rights are about that. Dignity. If you cannot access something as basic as care for the health of you and your family, you are denied a fundamental necessity of human dignity.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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