In 2010, the number of uninsured Americans was over 50 million, showing that health care is indeed not treated as a basic human right in the United States. Although Medicare and Medicaid exist, they only cover a small and specifically qualified number of Americans. The highest number of uninsured citizens are those who make $25,000 a year or less – too much to qualify for Medicaid but too little to afford their own health insurance. Access to health care is a moral right, but the question of it being a legal right is debatable. Distributing health care unequally without a doubt questions the moral and ethical sides of the system, but as far as legality goes, it is perfectly fine. This goes back to the “survival of the fittest” mentality spoken about in the first article. Making health care a legal right could turn into overutilization of resources, which could be dissected as meaning more resources are used for the “weak” than the
In 2010, the number of uninsured Americans was over 50 million, showing that health care is indeed not treated as a basic human right in the United States. Although Medicare and Medicaid exist, they only cover a small and specifically qualified number of Americans. The highest number of uninsured citizens are those who make $25,000 a year or less – too much to qualify for Medicaid but too little to afford their own health insurance. Access to health care is a moral right, but the question of it being a legal right is debatable. Distributing health care unequally without a doubt questions the moral and ethical sides of the system, but as far as legality goes, it is perfectly fine. This goes back to the “survival of the fittest” mentality spoken about in the first article. Making health care a legal right could turn into overutilization of resources, which could be dissected as meaning more resources are used for the “weak” than the