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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:ideograph-numeric"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;letter-spacing:-.15pt">Human Rights Reader 302</span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;letter-spacing:-.15pt"></span></b></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal" style><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;letter-spacing:-.15pt">HEALTH: NOT CHARITY, NOT
MERCHANDISE: A HUMAN RIGHT.<span style>  </span></span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;letter-spacing:-.15pt">(part 1 of 2)</span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;letter-spacing:-.15pt"><span style>                                                        </span></span></b></p>


<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The<span style>  </span>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.</span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:blue"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:blue"></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>




<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">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<span style="color:blue"> </span>(UHC)<span style="color:blue">. </span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">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</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">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.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:blue"> </span></p>

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