The classic definition of "right" is that which one automatically has by simply being alive. So life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness are rights, because they are NOT given to you by anyone. Something like health care, while being something good to have, is not and cannot be a right because it requires someone else to provide it to you. If healthcare was a right, then a doctor could not deny it to you under any conditions. This would effectively become the right to enslave, which is evil and must not be tolerated.

Political rights, as understood by the founding fathers of the USA, are rights to actions, not rights to “things.” Rights do not exist at someone else’s expense, as that would violate the rights of someone else. So, there is no right to healthcare or anything else that someone else has to fund.

Are asking about legal rights? Bill of rights? Human rights? Civil Rights? Many of the things you mentioned are "rights" that are given through law...some rights are just human rights but still listed by the UN as basic rights...

I think the opportunity to attain those things are the underlying issue in political dissent...each person has the right to pursue an education...but not necessarily have it paid for by tax dollars...each person should be able to work wherever they want without discrimination based on sex, age, race, etc., but getting the job is their responsibility...they are not OWED a job...they should be able to get shelter but owning a house is a goal, not a right...

I have very mixed feelings on health care...part of it is like you...I don't want people to be sick...or die because they can't afford it...I don't think it is a right to have health care but perhaps the responsibility of a nation to keep its people as healthy as they can even if they are poor...that is what government is responsible for...basic stuff...education, health, roads, military...we vote on what we want our tax dollars go to (in theory)...I think anything that is not equally attainable through no fault of a person is an issue the government has to address..and they have in the past...social security, medicaid, child protection, etc. It is evolving as the needs of the people change...as the population grows and changes...as global impact affect us...

If only the wealthy are able to access medical and health care, we will lose our workers, our young, our elderly, etc. I don't understand the dissension and don't understand why health is not on the same level as military for the safety of our country.

For the most part, privilege sounds like entitlement (at least to me, anyway), that's not good and doesn't help to improve ourselves. I believe in working hard to earn possibilities to fight for opportunities. If housing, education and health care is going to be a guaranteed privilege then why anyone would want to work?. No matter what, someone has to work to produce everything we need to cover basic needs. We will always need food, clothes, services. None of those things are free and never will be. That's how mother nature works.