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Because, arguably, vast majority of people - in other words, public opinion, or vast majority of voters - don't understand that healthcare has to ration scarce resources too. Healthcare being a right is a nice, feel-good slogan, but does little to address resource scarcity or system inefficiency.

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Dismissing basic, reasonable expectations as "feel good slogans" is a smarmy tactic to distract from wealth hoarding.

The sky is the limit with what humans can do, but under late stage capitalism, it boils down to the preferences of those who control the system, and nothing more.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/03/how-asset-managers-h...

Healthcare rationing has historically been even more severe under non-capitalist systems.

Which would be a poor comparison in this context given what the linked article spells out:

We already have a centrally planned economy, but it's only for the wealthy.

> Healthcare being a right is a nice, feel-good slogan, but does little to address resource scarcity or system inefficiency.

I don't think these are contradictory concepts, nor does this do much to justify the objectively atrocious method we currently use to ration healthcare. Every dime of profit could have gone to healthcare—that's not rationing, that's just unnecessary and easily preventable cruelty.

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