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General Category => Debate Central => Topic started by: theking on October 27, 2022, 10:57:22 PM

Title: If OR is able to lockdown this right, will the rest follow?
Post by: theking on October 27, 2022, 10:57:22 PM

Oregon could be the 1st state to make health care a human right

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon voters are being asked to decide whether the state should be the first in the nation to amend its constitution to explicitly declare that affordable health care is a fundamental human right.

State Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, a main sponsor of the legislation behind the ballot measure, said making health care a human right is a value statement and is not aimed at pushing Oregon to a single-payer health care system, a longtime goal of many progressives.

But opponents warn the amendment could trigger legal and political woes and open the door to lawsuits.