Health Care Is A Human Right
Have you noticed? The current health care debate is about money, not people. Health care should not be a privilege, commodity or source of profit.
Help us change the dialogue. Invite your friends to join the movement to make the Right to Health Care a key part of the discussion.
Read on to learn more about this issue and view the letter (click under the logo) for our Declaration of Health Rights.On December 10, 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 25 of this Declaration proclaimed "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control." For all of the advances made in the United States to ensure individual security, the right to health care and security when sick has fallen by the wayside.
Missing in past and current health reform debate dialogue is acknowledgement that all Americans have the fundamental human right to health care. The current health care system is overburdened, inefficient, expensive and often inaccessible. Many members of American communities do not have access to health care. For some, affordability, geography, cultural and ethnic disparities, or language barriers keep them from receiving health care. Many are without health insurance, and even those with coverage often cannot afford the deductibles or co-pays. For many people, there is a perceived stigma to accessing public health programs or services they are eligible for.
Lost in every prior attempt to reform and improve the health care system is the resolve and determination that all individuals have a fundamental right to affordable, accessible health care. The current health care reform debate among legislators, policy experts, and insurance and pharmaceutical companies continues to root the problem in terms of money and coverage, allowing privilege, commodity, and profit interests to completely dominate the dialogue. To effectively address this problem, a shared consensus that all Americans have a fundamental human right to health care must be the cornerstone of every community, state, and national effort to enact true health care reform.
Have you noticed? The current health care debate is about money, not people. Health care should not be a privilege, commodity or source of profit.
Help us change the dialogue. Invite your friends to join the movement to make the Right to Health Care a key part of the discussion.
Read on to learn more about this issue and view the letter (click under the logo) for our Declaration of Health Rights.On December 10, 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 25 of this Declaration proclaimed "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control." For all of the advances made in the United States to ensure individual security, the right to health care and security when sick has fallen by the wayside.
Missing in past and current health reform debate dialogue is acknowledgement that all Americans have the fundamental human right to health care. The current health care system is overburdened, inefficient, expensive and often inaccessible. Many members of American communities do not have access to health care. For some, affordability, geography, cultural and ethnic disparities, or language barriers keep them from receiving health care. Many are without health insurance, and even those with coverage often cannot afford the deductibles or co-pays. For many people, there is a perceived stigma to accessing public health programs or services they are eligible for.
Lost in every prior attempt to reform and improve the health care system is the resolve and determination that all individuals have a fundamental right to affordable, accessible health care. The current health care reform debate among legislators, policy experts, and insurance and pharmaceutical companies continues to root the problem in terms of money and coverage, allowing privilege, commodity, and profit interests to completely dominate the dialogue. To effectively address this problem, a shared consensus that all Americans have a fundamental human right to health care must be the cornerstone of every community, state, and national effort to enact true health care reform.
We the undersigned, believe that all people have the right to health care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health. Health is more than the absence of disease, but includes prevention of illness, development of individual potential, and a positive sense of physical, mental and social well-being.
We believe that all people have the right to health care, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, religion, socio-economic or employment status, or geography.
We believe that all people have the right to receive appropriate and quality care when and where they need it.
We believe that health care advancements should be based on dialogue and collaboration among citizens, professionals, communities and policy makers. Health services should be affordable, accessible, effective, efficient and convenient.
We believe in the important role of personal responsibility in health care. It is important to create conditions in which people can and will make good health care choices.
We believe in proactive rather than reactive policy-making. Health care reform dialogue and policy-making needs to be framed in terms of people first, not the financial bottom line.
We as citizens concerned about access to health care and health improvement in communities, states, and the nation, do hereby commit ourselves to advocacy and action to promote the health rights of every American.
I work in a nursing home and witness daily the struggles people have to get the medications and services they need, whether in the nursing home or in the community - even with some form of insurance. It is a disgrace that there are people who cannot receive necessary treatments because they can not be afforded. Health care is a right - because you cannot persue life, liberty and happiness if you are dead.
Please share your story about why Health Care should be a Human Right or how you have been impacted by the lack of access to health care services.
Dedicated Servers
How can you not want every person to have/be able to afford health care?!?! An increased tax rate is a minor inconvenience in the face of a rapidly inefficient work force due to lack of health care. It just makes economic sense.
Its just the right thing to do to make health care for all american equal.
I got a staff infection at work. I payed out of pocket which gave me a less therow exam. If I was to have my infection coultured right a way they could of told me it was mrsa less than a mounth in to such a horific infection.
I am a cancer survivor who had colon cancer while pregnant. The baby and i survived, but we were in debt for years due to no health care. The bills were astronomical! Fortunately I didn't have to go through chemo, but if I had been told I "must", how could I have paid for it? Everyone has the right to chose life over our pocket books...we have a right to healthy care!
Dear. Mr/Ms. Millionaire, Healthcare is a human right, Healthcare is a moral right, When will be the last time you see the figures on the news of your nations people dying of sickness, and turn away? When will be the day where your moral conciousness kick in? When you lie sick on your bed one day, imagine yourself in a poor mother's shoes. she has no healthcare, and she has four kids. You say we everyone in America has the equal opportunity to succeed. That is not a pragmatic way of thinking. Those are just ideals of the American Dream Rumor. The only ideal that we can put into effect to be the catalyst for a better society is by taking into effect Barack Obama's Healthcare reform. We must be good team players. We must help everyone out to be a stronger America. We must help the elderly who once ran this nation when we were too young to fend for ourselves. We must help those in need, so they can help us in return. We must help the young who are too young to suffer the atrocities of this world. This country is ran by the “working –Americans” who in return make you rich. So keep them healthy, so you can continue your businesses. Thank you for your time and patience. An American who starves for change. For a better America.
I am 35 years old and have been employed since I was 16. I am currenly unemployed looking for employment. I left my last job because I had a baby and felt like she was my responibility to raise. That was right before this recession. I don't have health insurance and was hospitized a couple of months ago. I was allowed to recieve medicaid for the month I was in the hopital, but now I have been told that I can not receieve medicaid because I will not have up my baby's father. I will not agree to that because he is now unemployed and I know he does what he can for her and for me. So for that I can not ask for anything else.
The most advanced democracy in the world and people who don't have money die? Come on. Don't let corporate and capitalist America win over democratic America.
In a country where I have always paid my taxes, yet am denied coverage for myself and my five-year-old while being forced to help finance the care of those who knowingly break the law by illegally entering the country, I find myself wondering whether the government feels its citizens to be expendable. No health care for our family, struggling to pay for my son's kindergarten shots because the government denies him repeatedly, claiming that I make too much when I'm borrowing money from my family every month just to pay rent, utilities, and buy food. In short: Considering saving up for a big move.
