As the Senate GOP approaches a deadline on their efforts to overturn Obamacare, Atul Gawande reflects on a question that will be at the forefront of American political discourse: Is Health Care a Right? “The deal we each get on health care has a profound impact on our lives—on our savings, on our well-being, on our life expectancy. In the American health-care system, however, different people get astonishingly different deals. That disparity is having a corrosive effect on how we view our country, our government, and one another.”