During the healthcare debate last year I was strongly of the opinion that healthcare is not a right, but when I compared it to the right to an attorney, I had a harder time clarifying my reasons against healthcare as a right. Does it make a difference to distinguish a right to receive healthcare versus to receive free healthcare? Why should a repeat offender continue to obtain free council at the cost of the taxpayer while a presumably innocent sick person shouldn't receive life-saving medication or treatment at the cost of the taxpayer? On one hand there is a potential loss of liberty, but on the other hand there is a potential loss of life. What factors am I missing or confusing?