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There is no right without responsibility.
If health care is a right, then you have an obligation to live according to prescribed healthy ways so as not to unduly burden your fellow citizens. You have a obligation to conduct yourself minimizing risk. Which means very few sports can be tolerated. Tennis elbow and a broken leg from skiing are both morally unacceptable. After all, someone else is paying the bill.
Under such a presumption, surely promiscuous sex would be prohibited as well as recreational drug use.
This points out another reason why people should be handling their own health care expenses. Be careful what you want government to handle because for those of you who really want single payer government funded healthcare, or more to the point health care funded by me, then you would also have to agree that I and every other tax payer now gets a say on how live your life. If we should all take care of each other like mr. rainbows and butterflys a few posts up thinks we should do well that's exactly what you're gonna have to agree to. If I am going to pay for your health care then I sure as hell get a say on whether or not you're wasting my money.