Managing Director At Johnson Healthcare Management Consulting Firm

I strongly believe that healthcare is a basic human right; however, the reality is that health care is often based on privilege and/or driven by employer benefits. There are many factors to consider when discussing healthcare as a basic human right. All individuals, regardless of income, race, or status should be treated equally when it comes to safe, effective, and quality health care. Even though I believe healthcare should be a human right, we have to consider how this would be feasible among different populations and societies. According toMaruthappu, Ologunde, and Gunarajasingam (2012) “a fundamental difficulty with considering healthcare as a right is that this right, unlike many others, is dependent upon the resources of a society,

The right to health care should be considered a civil right. People should not be discriminated against for being sick. Americans who are ill should not have to make the choice between financial ruin or paying for the medical treatments they need to stay alive. Coverage of all Americans would best counter or contain the spreading of epidemics such as the H1N1 flu (swine flu) or smallpox. (ProCon.org 2013, April 12).

Beneficence - This would involve risks and costs and health and social care service provider should act a way that benefits the patient.

“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, and 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” (United Nations Declaration of Human Rights).The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights immediately brought about a change to the world as a whole. Not only did they decide it inhuman to keep health care from citizens, but they set out other standards of

As Americans we should all be afforded access to healthcare. Access to healthcare is an individual right according to the human rights amendment. The human right to health guarantees a system of health protection for all. The human right to health means that everyone has the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, which includes access to all medical services, sanitation, adequate food, decent housing, healthy working conditions and a clean environment (What is the Human Right to Health and Health Care, 2015). However there are strengths and weaknesses to every healthcare system and the U.S. Healthcare system is not exempt. I plan to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the U. S. Healthcare system (What is the Human Right to Health and Health Care, 2015).

The right to health care is displayed in the founding documents of the United States. The Declaration of Independence states that all citizens have “unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of

A sensitive topic in the United States today revolves around the issue of healthcare. Is health care a basic human right or is it just a privilege to those who are able to afford it? Health care in the United States is in desperate need of reform. The Affordable Care Act takes that stance that health care is in fact a basic human right and that everyone should have health insurance. When the term “basic human rights” is used, most people think of the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This doesn’t necessarily mean that people should be forced to sustain others’ lives, or that they have the responsibility to make others happy because they have a “right” to pursue happiness. You are born with these basics rights that no

Right to independent living - If someone has an impairment they should be able to get the support they need to live an independent life.

I strongly believe that all American citizens should be entitled free healthcare. This is due to that fact that this can play a big role of ensuring that there is an improved access to health services. In addition, ensuring that all American citizens have an access to the right health care will also decrease health care costs. For instance, by allowing people to receive regular and preventive medical care and not wait until they are persistently ill to request treatment when medical costs are much higher (Niles, 2011). In relation to this free health care will promote equal chance by decreasing the number of people who are economically deprived in society (Niles, 2011). This can be because of bad health and other medically-related financial problems.

You have the right to get health care services in a way that respects your culture, race, color, age, disability, religion, gender, gender identity,

Healthcare is the improvement of physical and mental health through the assistance of medical services. The right to health care is an internationally recognized human right. In 1948, 48 nations, including the United States, signed the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. “In this document it is stated that everyone should have the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well being of oneself and one’s family, including medical care” (Right to Health Care ProCon.org). People have the right to receive the health care they deserve regardless of the costs. It is a basic human right to be provided with the medical care and assistance needed to live.

When deciding who is a great leader Gigi Darricades the CEO of Valley Wide Health Systems Inc. Gigi was born and raised in Chile in the city of Chuquicamata. From there her parents got a passport and were able to come to the U.S, but she was not able to get one and there for went to boarding school in Canada and later when she turned 18 she entered the U.S. that way. She then attended a Community College because of the out-of-state tuition being so high this was the cheaper way to go. Gigi worked as a TA or teacher assistance and selling auto parts, she did this for 6 to 7 years. The University of California Berkeley was her next stop and got a Bachelors of political science and then later went back to that same college, went to the school of public health where there was only 12 students and graduated with a Masters in health care administration. She later moved to New Mexico where she worked at Presbyterian Hospital and ran the rural hospital and later merged the two together. After that she meet her husband and moved to Utah where she worked for a multinational health care doing rural health care. Which was hard because the culture was mostly men and not female oriented. After that she then attended Law school in the University of Utah. Gigi thought her husband was going to get transferred to New Mexico for his job, she went ahead and took the state board there. After all he did not get transferred there, but they did end up going to Wyoming and 18 months later took the

There are two type of human rights: those that are intrinsic, ones that we would still hold if there were no structured society or laws (for example, the right to adequate food), and those that are socially and politically constructed, meaning rights that exist because of conversation, agreements, ordinances, and laws (for example, healthcare) (Taylor, 2010). It would be hard to make an argument for health care as an intrinsic right but I would, and will in the next part of this paper, argue for healthcare as a political right. The General Assembly of the United Nations presented this exact argument when it included access to healthcare on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including healthcare as an inalienable right that should be provided to the people (Assembly, 1948). Despite its inclusion on this document though, the United States is among a minority of wealthy nations that do not provide health care to its people. We as citizens of the United States must come to determine what “counts among [us] as just and unjust” (Rawls, 1971, p. 11) and what “is rational for [us] to pursue” (Rawls, 1971, p. 11) as a nation and what we view as rights for our people. Shafer-Landau suggests several constraints of thinking that are important in this

Sadly, their has never been a correct answer to this question, but according to the ideals of Locke, healthcare should be an individuals right because every human has the right to live, breathe, obtain property and happiness, and finally be healthy. Locke stated, “The natural right of all man is, life, liberty, and property.” This was later adapted into the because of the right that every person can live, healthcare should be considered a right. This is mainly focused on the idea that because healthcare healths and betters a person's right to live it should be considered a right of the people and not a privilege. This ultimately illustrates the idea that healthcare is right, due to it being a sense of well being and security that if a person gets sick or contracts a horrific disease, this person can seek help and maintain his right to life, liberty, and

Not many people would sign on as CEO of a company facing troubled times—then again—not everyone is Jeff Myers. With a career evenly split between the sides of hospital operations and managed care, Myers left his position as CEO of Alliant Health Plans to take on the role of CEO at Hamilton Medical center.