Health Care Professions: Issues and Questions
I believe that health care is indeed a right for all people. Just as personal and public safety is a right that we all believe in, ascribe to, and pay to uphold, so we should also protect the right to be healthy. It is the nation's job to help create an existence for its citizens that is free from disease and other forms of harm. The government does this in other concrete ways for its people, such as by providing definitive means of protection through a police force and through legislation to protect public and personal safety. Thus the health and wellness safety of its people needs to be treated as equally important. Those who oppose a pervasive and comprehensive healthcare system for all (and with it, the taxes that come to all in order to afford such a system) often argue that sick people, diabetics, smokers with lung cancer, and others, don't have a right to their money. However, "As two...
The proper reaction to egalitarianism is not indifference. It is the promotion of a fluid society in which aspiration is honored and rewarded.' A child with Down Syndrome may not have the right to my money. But we are a better community, and a better country, if we give it to him anyway" (Roy, 2013). The fundamental answer is that we have the responsibility to pay for the costs of public health; even if we're not always reaping the benefits that public health can provide, and even if we're paying for the healthcare of others via our own taxes, we're a better collective society for such actions.
b.The nursing shortage is indeed global, and not just localized to the U.S. In order to alleviate their own nursing shortage, higher income countries (such as the U.S.) will need to be…
