Healthcare: Right or Privilege?

I don't care really. It doesn't matter what it is. But, taking care of the health of its people is what a civilized nation does. It is one of the marks of being civilized.
One can extend the question: does a disabled person have the right to accomodations? Does a person whose house is burning down have the right to firefighters? Does a person who has just been stabbed have the right to be helped by passersby? Does one really care? We do these because we are civilized. And human.
Honestly in many ways most of our rights are how we defined them to be. One can say every human being has the right to life but then it gets dicey. The rights to equality between races & between genders have been recognized in America only for a relatively short period of time, and still not accepted in many countries & cultures.
The real problem is not so much whether it's a right but how to pay for it. If healthcare didn't cost so much, nobody would have cared. Then comes the next question, why is healthcare in the US so expensive? There is this thing gaining popularity called Medical Tourism, citizens of industrialized Western countries are traveling to Thailand, India, Costa Rica, Poland & other 'less developed' countries for medical treatment. And most seem satisfied with the care they get. And guess what! Most of the technology, medications and procedures where developed in the West, somettimes indirectly with the help of taxpayer's money, & yet it is prohibitively expensive in the West & affordable in 'poor' countries!!