You don t hear that observation quoted in Washington very often. Here the demand is always for more new laws, more new programs, more new regulations.
Nobody asks what the obverse of the proposition is.
Washington has never heard of obverses. Furthermore, this supposed right has been violated constantly throughout human history, since most people and their rulers never even heard of it. So when the Clinton health-care plan bombed, it sort of just evaporated. Today few people talk about health care as a right, and nobody seriously maintains that this supposed right is being violated by our failure to force the taxpayer to pay for it. In other words, nobody, not even its advocates, really believed it was a right in the proper sense of the word.