Debate: Is healthcare a right?
Side: No.

A family struggling to feed itself means a family that does not get the necessary meals they need.No, a family that does not get the necessary meals they need is failing to feed itself, not struggling to do so.Since we were talking about people that do not get enough food, I am not sure why you changed the definition to people who get enough food but struggle to do so.I didn't change the definition, I disputed your attempt to do so. This was about children not getting enough food. Covering all the bills and keeping food on the table can be said to be a struggle for all but the upper middle class and wealthy, but that doesn't mean they go hungry. If a child is getting the food he or she needs every day, he or she does not satisfy your assertion, regardless of how much work his or her parents have to put in to do it. Only the children NOT getting enough food qualify.I am not sure if you understand how bankruptcies work. If every family that struggles with debt payment should file for bankruptcy, then half of American families would be bankrupt.I did not say that families that struggle with debt payment should all file for bankruptcy. I said that a parent who is unable to properly feed his or her family due to debt payments has a responsibility to place feeding his family first, even if that means filing for bankruptcy.Availability does not equate to production or export. Accessibility and cost are the primary factors that affect availability to an individual not the national production/export rate.This is not the 'availability' I was referring to, as I was directly contrasting it to the healthcare industry, as this entire debate is concerning. We have food production to feed ourselves many times over. We do NOT have medical personnel, equipment, and supplies to cover all health care needs of all of our citizens and aliens. Enough food is available for everyone, cost notwithstanding. But no amount of money can instantly generate a fully trained physician, for example.Your suggestion is to file for bankruptcy and default on loans. If all struggling households did this, the economy would go into a tailspin.Maybe the economy needs to go into a tailspin to give us all a reality check. We're all living on massive amounts of credit and debt, even the excessively wealthy. It's a broken system that needs to come down sometime.That said, I never suggested bankruptcy was the only path for everyone. The family struggling to pay their mortgage, for example, should probably consider selling the house, moving into a smaller, cheaper rental, and putting any equity they had in the mortgage to work for them. The real suggestion inherent in what I was saying was that sacrifice is often needed in a struggling family, and that sacrifice should not be of the families basic needs, regardless of the circumstances. If that means a bunch of people declare bankruptcy and tank the economy, so be it. If our economy won't function without people starving their children, then it needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.I will further add that a not-insignificant proportion of underfed individuals in the US are underfed due to various eating disorders.Show me someone in the US who is insufficiently fed, and I'll show you what he or she or his or her parents/guardians are doing wrong.