PHM-Exch> Food for a thought to be dreamed every night

[Claudio Schuftan]

Human Rights Reader 302**

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*HEALTH: NOT CHARITY, NOT MERCHANDISE: A HUMAN RIGHT.  *(part 1 of 2)*
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The  ultimate purpose of health systems is the health of the population; it
cannot be anything other…and this we have to repeat to ourselves every day
and have to dream it every night.

To start with, let’s be clear: The intersection of health and human rights
should take central stage when we seek a commitment for universal health
coverage (UHC).



You all know that inequality has grown the world over and that the economic
burden to access to health care continues to be important, with
affordability being the key determinant to access health care.

If one pursues to satisfy the health needs of the whole population,
universal health systems conceived as the provision of universal (though
restricted) health coverage, as is now being pursued by many international
agencies, actually have many disadvantages over the tax-financed
single-payer option of a public health delivery system with free, universal
access financed through the state. The public option is simply the fairest
and the cheapest; it covers everybody, does not have to generate profits
and has low administrative costs.

For the full Reader, go to

http://wp.me/plAxa-1Ei

Claudio
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