Question

Paragraph 1: Argue the reasoning for why Health Care should be a right.

Paragraph 2: Argue the reasoning for why Health Care should be a Privileged.

Paragraph 3: Identify which side of the Health Care argument you personally take and explain your reasoning.

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The human right to health means that everyone has the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, which includes access to all medical services, sanitation, adequate food, decent housing, healthy working conditions, and a clean environment.The human right to health guarantees a system of health protection for all.Everyone has the right to the health care they need, and to living conditions that enable us to be healthy, such as adequate food, housing, and a healthy environment.Health care must be provided as a public good for all, financed publicly and equitably.The human right to health care means that hospitals, clinics, medicines, and doctors’ services must be accessible, available, acceptable, and of good quality for everyone, on an equitable basis, where and when needed.

2- Health care involves the participation of doctors, nurses, hospitals, drug companies, medical equipment companies, pharmacists, etc. There are a lot of people in the health care field expecting some form of compensation for the products and services they provide. I doubt anyone here would seriously suggest that all these individuals and orgainzations work for free (they would take other jobs instead) in order to provide health care to everyone. Doctors need to eat, too. If they do it for free because everyone has the right to get access to healthcare even they can not pay for that then how these services providers will sustain their lives if they are getting less paid or no paid by giving free medical services.

3- I personally, think that Health care should be right because Every man, woman and child in our country should be able to access the health care they need regardless of their income. We need a system that works not just for millionaires and billionaires, but for all of us. Americans should not have to fear losing their health insurance if they lose their job or change employment... We need a system that prioritizes the health of working-class families over the profits of insurance companies.

Barack Obama, JD, US President, US Senator (D-IL) and presidential candidate at the time of the quotation, stated during the Oct. 7, 2008 presidential debate in Nashville, TN, moderated by Tom Brokaw of NBC News:

"I think it [health care] should be a right for every American. In a country as wealthy as ours, for us to have people who are going bankrupt because they can't pay their medical bills -- for my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in the hospital room arguing with insurance companies because they're saying that this may be a pre-existing condition and they don't have to pay her treatment, there's something fundamentally wrong about that.'