Health care is, or should be, a basic entitlement. Your lifestyle choices aren't.
Precisely backwards. Choosing how to live your life is a basic human right, health care is just a nice-to-have entitlement.
If someone gets cancer and can't afford the treatment, you're saying we should let them die?
No, I was making the point that the freedom to live as you please (to make your own "lifestyle choices") is more fundamental than healthcare. Freedom of speech, freedom of action, etc are rights that you naturally have until and unless someone takes them away from you. That's why they are called the natural rights.
Health care is something you don't have until and unless someone provides it to you (unless you're a doctor yourself). It is not a basic human right, it is an entitlement. A nice one, certainly, but nowhere near as important as the right to choose your own lifestyle. And if you believe healthcare is more basic and more important, then by all commit some crimes and claim your guaranteed prison healthcare.
That's not to say that creating a healthcare entitlement program is necessarily a bad idea - there's are reasonable arguments to be made for it. But "it's more basic than your freedom to choose your lifestyle" is not one of them.
It shocks me that people can think this way, that health care isn't a basic human right.
It shocks me that people can think government freebies are more important than their basic freedoms, and it shocks me that people don't understand the difference between a right and an entitlement.
Again, I'm not saying we should let people die in the streets. As a practical matter, guaranteed healthcare makes some sense. But I think it's important to be clear about which things are basic rights, which are merely nice-to-have entitlements, which are more important and exactly what the tradeoff is between them. Sloppy thinking can lead to sloppy, and poor, decisions.