Should universal health care be a right, or a privilege?

Should universal health care (aka, socialized medicine - to those who wish to scare Joe Sixpack half to death...) be a right, or a privilege? Most of the developed countries in the world (and even some of the less developed ones: Cuba, and Venezuela, for example) think that universal health care is a human right that should at the very least be provided to citizens and legal residents. The U.S., on the other hand, appears to consider health care as a privilege, which should be taken care of by for-profit organizations, to whoever can pay the ociated (and often unaffordably high) costs. As a result, more than a quarter of all Americans have no health care, and live in fear of even non-life-threatening injuries or diseases, which many simply cannot pay for. Should the richest country in the world continue to deny to its citizens as healthy and long a life as the rest of the developed world? (Oh, and by the way, even Cubans live longer on average than we Americans due to their “inferior” but free health care. Something to think about...)