Healthcare Is A Human Right
-- According to Sameer Dossani, Amnesty International
Background and Context
Health care is not about markets; it is about the right of every person to live a life of dignity.
Argument Tree
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Healthcare Is A Human Right
Current single-payer proposals come much closer to fulfilling the human right to health care than the market-based reform plans.
-- According to two of Amnesty International’s ally organizations, the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative and the National Health Law Program
>>“Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”
-- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 25, United Nations
>>Health care should not be considered a human right.
>>Health care is difficult to define.
>>It is not clear whom should provide (universal) healthcare.
>>All rights possessed by an individual imply a duty on the part of others.
>>The philosophical basis of all human rights are shaky.
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