Question

legal rights change based on political terrain. what is the current political terrain are there legal rights that are subject to change in the rights to healthcare?

Answer 1

Ans) Hospitals, physicians, and nurses would provide the target categories for thinking about the politics of hospitals, of nurses, and so on. The politics of provision, of payment, or of regulatory oversight could well be another basis of categorization. And so on. Equally, one might proceed as if the special features of the medical industry shaped the politics of every issue in it. That would presume a common politics of health care.

- The politics of industry features is certainly possible. But using professional and industry categories seems to presume too much commonality about medical care disputes. Presuming a common politics of health care on the other hand seems empirically misleading. The undeniable politics in do not mean there is a common politics of health care.

- Instead, we can use the analytic triad — of ideas, institutions, and interests — as the organizing structure. From there, one identifies types of conflicts that regularly arise in health care. There are regular disputes about how medical care should be financed, delivered, managed, and regulated. Where major proposals to change existing arrangements are at stake, we observe what can be called the “high politics” of health care. There are, by comparison, disputes about the purposes of health care that highlight conflicting ideas. Abortion, euthanasia, treatment of the disabled — these illustrate the type of moral controversy that, at different times in different settings, can mobilize passion. There are the movements that are more similar to social causes — mobilizing citizens to back or attack efforts to shape how we live, whether we drink or smoke, and what we eat. Likewise, there are the politics of scandal, whether in medical research or common corruption. None of these categories of conflict are distinctive to medical care, but their distribution over time and space does vary. The result is that, in the world of medical care, we have an ever-changing composition of political conflicts. And to understand that changing world requires analytic approaches that permit one to see similarities and differences from the issues that arise in other arenas of public concern.