Categorical Imperative Argument

One of the major diversion, conflict, and controversy comes across from the access to health care in the United States. The essence of this dispute is whether medical treatment is a right, therefore all citizens should have the ability to use it or a commodity so society should have to pay or limits of charity. Throughout this deliberation I will be using philosophers and their philosophical concepts to support each side of the debate. Bernie Sanders writes Health care is a Right and the first evidence is “In some parts of the country life expectancy is even declining, while some 22,000 of our citizens needlessly die every year because they lack health insurance” (Robert Paul Wolf Pg 264) this shows that Sanders believes that
“So we battle on to secure the basic human right to health care in the United States, we must do so with clarity and a singular focus about what is right and what is wrong, what is just not, what is moral and what is immoral” (Robert Paul Wolf Pg 265). Donna concludes that health care should be a human right that is the moral thing to do for the society. A philosopher that agrees with this point is Immanuel Kant with the theory of the Categorical Imperative. Version 1 “Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or that of another, never simply as means, but always at the same time as an end” (Prof Culbertson). Kant agrees with health care being a right as this version 1 shows that we should always treat others kindly that would be by giving the society health
Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau will and other came up with the social contract. Which is voluntary unanimous agreement among all the people of a society to form themselves into a united political community and to obey the laws that they lay down. This relates to the health care system as the American society and citizens have voted for taxes which is what the majority wants, right? The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau will agree that the majority is always right as he came up with the concept the general will. This means that everyone has the role and gets to vote and is obligated to vote. The majority sets the policy. Therefore in our society today Jean would agree that health care is a privilege if it hasn’t been voted to be a