A Philosophy of Healthcare

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This essay considers the argument that health care for one and all is vital. This paper makes the case that, while slightly limited, healthcare should be a right in the United States. The paper first looks at the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and dissects four of its articles, then uses the utilitarian philosophy of John Stuart Mill and finally considers the meaning of the social contract given by Rousseau.

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"In this time of mounting health insurance premium costs for the working and worry over where and how healthcare will be gotten among those who cannot work, in this time of senior citizens boarding charter buses or learning the tricks of the world wide web in order to purchase reasonably priced pharmaceuticals from Canada, in this time of debate over whether a vegetative human being has the right, pre-vegetative state, to choose quality of life over life itself, we can see that healthcare is quite possibly the most important and most troublesome issue, politically, morally, spiritually, and philosophically, presently being pondered and debated in the United States and across the world today."

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