Are We Entitled to Free Health Care?

Are we entitled to health care at all? Are we actually entitled to anything? As an American, a human being, simply existing on this planet Earth, is there anything such as true Entitlement?
Once again, channeling my inner Librarian, I look towards Webster’s Dictionary. I have a version of Webster’s dated 1974, and curiously, this version does not have the actual word “entitlement”, but does define “entitle” as 1) to give title to, designate 2) to furnish proper grounds for seeking or claiming something.
Thirty five years later, the web version of Webster’s defines, “Entitlement”: 1 a : the state or condition of being entitled , a right to benefits specified especially by law or contract 2 : a government program providing benefits to members of a specified group; also : funds supporting or distributed by such a program 3 : belief that one is deserving of or entitled to certain privileges.
Interesting in itself, isn’t it?
Entitlement seems to be a new idea, not around in 1974 when I was growing up. As I recall, in my parents’ house, I don’t recall being “entitled” to anything, including transportation, spending money, even a college education. I do recall that anything I got beyond what was generally given by nurturing parents just because they loved you, such as meals, clothing and tenderness, I had to earn.
Where does this new sense of “entitlement” come from? How have the children of the new generation gotten some idea that they are entitled to a car, designer clothing, spending money and one of anything their friends have?
Why do a lot of Americans have some idea that everyone is “entitled” to Health Care, much less even a roof over their heads, a job or even money that comes in the mail without earning it? As I see it, we are not entitled to even air and water, we must seek them ourselves; if we do not choose to do so, someone else is not going to breathe for us and pour water down our throats unless we are in a hospital on life support.
Entitlement has been invented by liberals and the programs they have passed in Congress, starting with The New Deal. Beginning then, people no longer had to save for their retirement, or take care of their elders, the government would take care of it. The current workers would be taxed heavily in order to support the retired, on the promise that they would get the same.
Somehow it seems that every time you listen to debate on the issue, someone is adding to this list of things we are entitled to, sometimes even calling them basic rights. Do we actually have an inherent right to going to a doctor when we get sick? Does that also include preventative care; do we draw the line at abortions for the asking, even sex change operations? Just how “entitled” are we? It doesn’t seem to be enough for us any more to have the basic human rights of “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” without interference from the government; that would mean that we have to take responsibility for ourselves; what a novel concept!