Healthcare access as a right, not a privilege: a construct of Western thought |
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Authors: | Thomas J Papadimos |
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Institution: | (1) Departments of Anesthesiology, Medicine, and Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Toledo College of Medicine, 3000 Arlington Avenue Toledo, Ohio, 43614, USA |
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Abstract: | Over 45 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured. Those living in poverty exhibit the worst health status. Employment,
education, income, and race are important factors in a person's ability to acquire healthcare access. Having established that
there are people lacking healthcare access due to multi-factorial etiologies, the question arises as to whether the intervention
necessary to assist them in obtaining such access should be considered a privilege, or a right. The right to healthcare access
is examined from the perspective of Western thought. Specifically through the works of Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Hobbes,
Thomas Paine, Hannah Arendt, James Rawls, and Norman Daniels, which are accompanied by a contemporary example of intervention
on behalf of the medically needy by the The Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute. |
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