Right To Health Care

The Argument Supporting of a Moral Right to Health Care In “Is There a Right to Health Care and, if So, What Does It Encompass?” by Norman Daniels, he provides numerous reasons that decide that there is such a right to health care. Furthermore, he made an argument for a strong right to health care that was derived from John Rawls’ justice principle of “fair equality of opportunity.” There has been a question that arises about “is there a right to health care?” According to Daniel, there is a right to health care and he made strong arguments for his beliefs by discussing the rights to health care, theories of justice, and equal opportunity (Daniels). Daniels claims that health care is of special moral importance because it helps us to sustain …show more content…
The legal positivists believe that there is a right to health care due to the fact that institutions exist in them. This will assure everyone to have accesses to needed to services even if they cannot pay because the law stated that the society cannot deny anyone from having emergency services. Most people believe that legal entitlements. The way that people view medical services should be put in a different perspective to help fit the need of what society envisions. In fact, there are legal right and there are different scopes and contents of legal right in different countries due to different settings of health care system such as national care and mixed public and private insurance scheme (Daniels). In addition, there has been an argument about the scopes of the right to health care. This lead this debate to be push moral deliberation about the rights into the center even where a legal right is recognized. The basis and scope of the moral right to health care involve with positive and negative rights. According to Daniels, “a right to health care is a positive right as opposed to negative right” (Daniels). Furthermore, a right …show more content…
In fact, he focuses on the different rights where he believes that there should be a fair share. In this case, people should get help no matter what background they have such as income and education. As for the theories of justice, many people had rejected the Utilitarian rationale of health care. In addition, he provides different perspectives where people can see the good and the bad of the Libertarians and the Utilitarians. In my view, I side with Daniels argument because he looks at the big picture before making a decision. It is true that people need to seek for equal opportunity. At times, it may seem unfair; however, some individuals’ struggle each day and they need medical assistances before it leads to something dangerous. Daniel believes that a right to health care includes systems related entitlement, which is the effective treatment for disease and disability, rights and limits on effective treatments and equal health care