PHM-Exch> Universal health coverage (6)

[Claudio Schuftan]

>From Alison Katz <katz.alison at gmail.com>
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> There is a response to the question “What to do?” in relation to UN
> employees and in particular of course those of the World Health
> Organization. They can advocate for two essential things:
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> 1.       A fair international economic order so that sovereign states may
> provide quality public services for their people, financed through
> redistributive tax systems, from adequate national resources in their own
> hands and without interference from the international financial institutions
> acting in the interests of rich country transnational corporations, and
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> 2.       National health systems providing comprehensive public services,
> with universal coverage, free at the point of care.
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> The evidence is available and has been for 50 years that this is the most
> efficient use of resources if the aim is health for all - NOT of course, if
> the aim is shareholder profits for private companies in the services sector.
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> Massimo is completely right to say that pointing the finger at individual
> doctors is not appropriate. The object of social justice critiques is
> systems and not individual persons.
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