[imgabe]

The UN isn't going to build you a house or grow you any food or really do anything. It doesn't matter what they say. I can write lots of pretty words about how everyone should have a pony and never be sad when I'm not responsible for making it happen.

[amatecha]

It's a set of guidelines, not a set of promises from the UN. Countries/societies/communities are who implement policies and systems that support and correlate with these extremely-broadly-agreed-upon guidelines.

My point is that health care is absolutely an element of rights (though perhaps categorized separately from _civil_ rights, though that's getting quite nitpicky).

[imgabe]

I don't think the UN is the ultimate arbiter of what is or is not a right. Not that something being a "right" really means anything unless you have a way to enforce it.

[amatecha]

At the time of this Universal Declaration of Human Rights being published, the UN had 54 member countries[0]. Not sure what organization in human history is better positioned to author such a declaration.

Further, nitpicking around the definition of "rights", or who is worthy of declaring them has zero relevance to the point I'm making - that health care is traditionally an element of human rights policies and/or has a deep connection to the subject of human rights.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_United_Na...