Healthcare for all Americans
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Health care reform must ensure health care as a basic human right for US citizens, and this is a goal which remains unattained. Health insurance must also be reformed, and all US citizens shoulod contribute, as much as they are able, to a common fund that defrays the cost of preventing and treating injury and illness.
Publication Name: Human Rights
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0046-8185
Year: 1998
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The case against making healthcare a "right."
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America faces the task of providing health care to the medically indigent yet setting limits on what care can be paid for by public policy. Most of hospital costs and two-thirds of physicians' fees are paid by third-party payers. America must choose which benefits should be paid for.
Publication Name: Human Rights
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0046-8185
Year: 1998
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It's time to address the long-term healthcare crisis
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The author, a Democratic Congressman, contends that a proactive approach must be taken to the crisis in the US health-care system. Topics include the shortage of nurses and nursing assistants, and the need to reduce the cost of prescription drugs for seniors.
Publication Name: Human Rights
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0046-8185
Year: 2001
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