The history which EINO recounts shows that the right to education took almost 200 years to be completed! Is this what EINO is proposing as the best route for recognizing the right to health care?
That’s a legitimate interpretation of the history, that it took some 200 years for the right to education to be fully recognized. With a more educated citizenry though, there is no reason to believe that achieving other basic rights will take equally long and there is every reason to hope based on current citizen mobilization that we will see great progress during the first decade of the 21st century. The history of the right to education also teaches us that economic and social conditions play a huge role in bringing about such change. It is easy to see that every day even the mainstream newspapers of the country carry articles about the threatened closure of our public hospitals, seniors unable to purchase needed medications, ER’s diverting patients, so-called “nursing shortages” and other situations which threaten the health care of every resident in this country whether they have insurance or not. We judge that things are already pretty bad for even the middle-class, but (excepting
