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Everyone has the right to health, including health care, according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Health care is a public good, not a commodity. The U.S. health care system must fulfill these principles:
Universality: Everyone in the United States has the human right to health care.
Equity: Benefits and contributions should be shared fairly to create a system that works for everyone.
Accountability: The U.S. government has a responsibility to ensure that care comes first.Visit the AIUSA website and the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative site for more on health as a human right.
And then to pass the time, sample some of the thoughtful columns Frank Huyler, the emergency room doctor who wrote one of our selections, Right of Thirst, has written the New York Daily News:Health care reform was the right thing to do...Our rotten dental care system...
One young man's war...
And he puts that storytelling experience to good use in One patient's story...
"Ma'am," I said curtly, after introducing myself, "Why did you come to the ER in the middle of the night to get your prescriptions refilled?"Ask yourself as you read is this a story that shows our health care system to be universal, equitable and accountable? What's your story?
"I didn't come in the middle of the night," she replied. "I came yesterday afternoon."
She spoke sharply enough to get my attention. I glanced at her chart once more. Sure enough, she'd been waiting for 11 hours.
Are the supporting industries which allow medical practitioners also obligated to provide "rights" to doctor offices and hospitals and pharmacies so that these "rights" distributors can continue to operate? Medical universities will be providing future doctors with their human right to a medical education. Publishing houses will be medical students with their rightful textbooks. Pharmacies likewise would have a special counter without a cash register where people just ask for medicine and they're given it for free. We'll have to give the doctors houses and cars for free because they won't be earning any money. We'll have to give them free food and clothing and electricity. You know, I think the best thing to do is just round up all the medical professionals and put them in special compounds "for their own protection" that way they'll be always be available whenever someone needs some free "not a commodity" human right health care.
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