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Although many societies proclaim the equal worth of all persons and back that proclamation with guarantees of equal justice and rights, large economic disparities persist between individuals and across nations. Twelve percent of the gross national product and over $2,000 per person is spent annually for health care in the United States. Physicians have doubled their incomes since 1973. Yet the poor and uninsured often cannot afford minimally adequate health care. Many of us are therefore perplexed, or at least confused, about the right to health care and about our obligations to insure access to or funding for some level of care for all persons.
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Beauchamp, T.L. (1991). The Right to Health Care in a Capitalistic Democracy. In: Bole, T.J., Bondeson, W.B. (eds) Rights to Health Care. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-28295-4_3
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