Source: Washington Post
Around the globe, more than 130 countries recognize health care as a human right, while the U.S. currently does not, leaving thousands of families across the country without coverage.
Yet recent polls during the midterm election show that at least 41 percent of Americans believe health care for all is one of the most important issues facing the country at the moment. Washington Post considers the question of whether healthcare should be treated as a human right in the United States.
One of the key ways in which health care can be recognized and respected as a human right, reports Washington Post, is by ensuring political commitment and institutional changes are happening simultaneously.
In Colombia, for example, the constitutional right to health care has allowed for at least 95 percent of Colombians to be insured to-date, but there are still many issues they face with the quality of care they receive since much of their health care needs to go through a system of approval.
Washington Post writes that though health care as a human right is possible, there needs to be accountability in the legal system and institutions need to do their part.
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