Access to health care: A right or farce?
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 59
ISBN-13: 9780494212325
Subjects: University of Toronto. -- Faculty of Law -- Dissertations.; Health services accessibility -- Law and legislation.; Patients -- Legal status, laws, etc.; Equality -- Health aspects.
Description: Despite being accorded recognition as a right inhering in all human beings by a plethora of international human rights instruments and domestic laws, many scholars and pundits still question the legitimacy of making access to health care dependent on need as opposed to ability to pay. They contend,  inter alia, that health care is a private good, subject to the market and that redistributive intervention by the State is indefensible. This thesis is a refutation of their claims. Based on human equality, common good and the intimate relationship between human life and good health, the thesis recasts access issues in terms of a challenge, not resolvable via arguments centered on which group loses their rights in the process, but on the benefit to society in general resulting from a healthy population. The conclusion is that access to health care, notwithstanding contrary persuasions, is not a farce but a human right.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-03, page: 1282.

Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

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