You are not free if you do not have the basic necessities for life. That is a simple fact. In class today the teacher asked the class to "Give one reason why you think people have the right to healthcare.". That is an interesting question, but in my eyes completely useless. Humans are a social species, we feel good when others feel good. The reason humanity is so warped right now is because we give people a social incentive to hurt each other, competition, capital accumulation, etc. That is still not the point of this post though.
The point of this post is simply a question with some basic assumptions attached. The vast majority of people want everyone to be happy and healthy, and we have more than enough resources to do so. My question is a simple one, if the vast majority of humanity wants something why do we not have it? My teacher told a story in class. A women needed a C-section at a hospital, or else both her and the baby would die. There were no tools at this clinic to do that, however. It was a rural area of a third world country. Luckily there was a town within driving distance and an ambulance at the clinic. There was just one problem, it did not have gas. The women had no money, and later died at that clinic.
What was the main problem in that story? Most people I'm afraid would say it was that the women had no money. That, in my view, was not the problem. The problem was that we put money above human life, there was definitely enough gas to get her there in the pumps. So my even bigger question is: Does putting a social construct in a higher place of importance than human life make us more free?
The doctors had to answer to the man who operated the gas pumps. The man who operated the gas pumps had to answer to the capitalist, the capitalist had to answer to the investors. Due to capital accumulation having money makes more money, and so those with the most money are those who extract as much as possible as efficiently as possible, meaning that eventually capital controlled by those whose only role in life is to accumulate capital will become the vast majority. That means the capital itself cannot, as a whole, care about humanity in any way shape or form.
Breaking anything in this chain of hierarchy from human to capital will lead the monopoly of force of the state to enforce this hierarchy.