Health Care as a Civil Right

Harvard HLS

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Politicians and protesters alike often utter the familiar phrase: "Health care is a right, not a privilege." People for whom access to health care is a matter of life or death recognize that the truth is more complicated. American health care is broken. We long ago abandoned President Roosevelt’s effort to include the right to adequate medical care as among those in a Second Bill of Rights necessary for the security and prosperity of all. The…