Health Care

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Follow this pattern to post research results and links to this page:

• (Brief description of resource. Link if any. Your real name.)

Try to group your posts under topics, maybe using subheadings or putting posts near other related topics.

Health Care

Main Topic Questions

• Is health care a universal right?
• If not, what, if any, obligation do we have to help people get access to health care?

Research Needs

• Collect the best arguments you can regarding health care as a right, sample also conservative thought on why it isn't.
• How does health care compare to other things that we do agree people have a right to, such as education?

Arguments

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty, Shows the difference in costs of trial where death penalty was sought after and where it wasn’t. Tito Howell.

Argument by the World Health organization that states health care is a right of all people, but also states that it should be timely, acceptable and affordable. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs323/en/ - Jeff Kepple

Argument against health care as a human right: states that it is an unhelpful saying in its definition and what it entails. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1126951/ - Jeff Kepple

Argument saying that universal health care is not enough because global insurance does not cover the essential parts of survival. Also states that American access to healthcare insurance is not correlated to the quality of care. https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/universal-healthcares-dirty-little-secrets - Jeff Kepple

An article about how healthcare can be both a right and a privilege. http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2017/04/health-care-right-privilege-cant-answer.html -Jeff Kepple

A good examination of pros and cons. http://healthcare.procon.org/ - Nick Ensroth

A look comparing the United States Healthcare as a whole to other countries. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2015/oct/us-health-care-from-a-global-perspective - Nick Ensroth

Insights

Outline of the Japanese Health care system and how it has resulted in the longest life expectancy and has a high quality of health care given. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_system_in_Japan - Jeff Kepple

Comparison of Japanese health care system and US health care system. Speaks about quality and costs. https://www.nyu.edu/projects/rodwin/lessons.html#IV - Jeff Kepple

Paper showing that the U.S. spends the most on healthcare, but is an outlier in the fact that their life expectancy is not increasing with this increasing cost and explains why this is the fact. https://ourworldindata.org/the-link-between-life-expectancy-and-health-spending-us-focus - Jeff Kepple