Why not a general right to health care?
Ruddick, W.
Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine new York 56(3): 161-163
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0027-2507 PMID: 2747678 Document Number: 337812
Common objections to a right to health care reflect questionable assumptions about the nature of rights, power, illness, inequality, and money. A right to health care can be based on other more general rights to life, liberty, and health, as well as on considerations of equality and the medical profession's professed moral commitments. However based, it need not "enslave" or coerce physicians and nurses, nor force us to sacrifice other social goods. But consensus is unlikely except on specific rights to certain kinds of health care.