Is there a Human Right to Medical Insurance
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[edit] Is there a Human Right to Medical Insurance
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[edit] Context
The article, in relation to human rights in health care, details the argument on whether or not human health care can be considered a human right, and considering how poorly some parts of the world fail at this apparent human right, does that make our society unjust for not fulfilling this? Detailing these arguments from different angles and how both sides are supported, though the underlying tone of it is to question the moral side of healthcare and its distribution. Looking upon the issues this dilemma faces when taken into questions whether not having health care violates human rights.
[edit] Overview
The key aspects that this article talks about, obviously, is whether or not health care should be considered a universal human right. It details how the medical industry falls short on its delivery of health care, how every citizen does not have it to differing degrees, it also touches upon how some people blame that getting into the medical field is too competitive when in reality, it is the lack of competition for this supposedly free service is why healthcare is openly available as a resource. The article also discussed how the supply and demand make an impact on this issue and focused on aspects of why the issue of healthcare as a human right has been received so poorly.
[edit] Strengths and Weaknesses
This article has an overwhelming amount of heart in it. To clarify on an important point, this author does state that health insurance is not considered, and should not be considered, a human right. Their reasoning for this being that human rights don’t really change throughout the ages. Rights like not murdering someone, assaulting, etc, are all considered a right because they remain that unspoken right for ages, while health care doesn’t stay consistent for a year at most. Even though it has gone in a direction that I am unsure about, the sheer amount of detail they put in explaining this is staggering. They touch upon how the supply of doctors is horrendously low and this is due to the fact that they are gatekeeper by resources and strict guidelines thus creating a lack of competition for what is an essential aspect of society, and demand where they go one about how the rich, which is a smaller group, have more access to health care then the poor, which is a larger group and there for limits the amount of doctors needed as the rich have more open access to them in the current system. You can feel how this author wishes to explain these issues and why the need for health care to have less government presence to allow more people access to healthcare, but the blaring weaknesses in this article stems from the fact that it doesn’t have too much backing in terms of research or proof of some of these transgressions, and that it hinges off of a single person’s opinion on the matter to formulate some of its arguments. For the first, when they talked about supply and demand, there was little to no backing for some of the claims that they made, it simply went on with mostly theoretical talk and generalizations on the topics of the shortage of doctors and competition for this specific industry, and how the demand section was simply mostly hypotheticals. Then there is the fact that the main bulk of the paper was them simply arguing against the points made by Paul Krugman and the author simply bounces off these points and states that they are incorrect, granted they have made good points but still with little backing of it in my opinion.
[edit] Assessment
In conclusion, I do feel that this article does a good job on introducing the dilemma that health care isn’t a human right for many different reasons, but considering that the author doesn’t go too in depth with backing their points and that most of their paper is arguing against a single person’s point of view on the matter does limit this piece. I would say that it does help raise questions for future audiences to ask and research for themselves, but as an informative piece, it falls a bit short.
fm20pm 22:10, 01 December 2023 (EDT)
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