Question

Why the author has chosen to support the moral right to universal access to basic care?

The right is also partly a "positive" right. Its ingredient moral claim to access is exercised either through purchase with one's own realistically available resources or, if one does not have such resources, through means of access provided by others. This "positive" dimension of the right is crucial if it is to be a right to actual universal access. That said however, it would be confusing and mistaken to think of the entire right as a positive right. The scope of the right as it is embedded in the U.S. social situation also includes persons who can gain access by purchasing insurance with resources of their own. As I demonstrate in the next section, for these persons the practical import of the realistic moral right to basic health care is that it constitutes a moral obligation to insure themselves, and the state is justified in mandating that they fulfill this Menzel, Realistic Moral Right to Universal Access obligation. One portion of the right's demographic is "positive"-some people ought to be provided resources by others so they can gain access. The other portion is different-the holders of the right are morally obligated to obtain insurance. This right-and-obligation character is the correct way to state the moral situation in a multipaver health system in which individuals and sponsoring groups (such as employers) choose their insurer. The way the moral right to a basic minimum of accessible care is articulated in the context of a single-payer system will need to be somewhat different. The essential moral claims will still apply, but the "obligation" to purchase insurance shifts to an obligation to pay the taxes supporting the single-payer insurance. I have chosen to develop the argument for the moral right to universal access to basic care in a manner that applies explicitly to multi- payer systems, which is the immediate context of the U.S. To be sure, even in the U.S context considerations of efficiency and fairness beyond those that contribute to generating the basic moral right itself may ultimately pull the society toward a single-payer arrangement for providing universal access; consideration of that possibility is beyond the scope of this paper

Answer 1

"Getting the basic care or treatment is the right of the people ." Author has chosen to support the moral rights to universal access to basic care because what actually is happening is for the treatment what people get they pay either with the help of some other people or by taking insurance. So, there is no single payer for the services because people cannot afford the services so they take help from others . Basically , the author wants to say that basic care should be included in the rights of the people so, that it becomes easy for them to access healthcare services as it will become universally accessible for everyone.