Why isn’t healthcare treated as a human right in the U.S.?
We believe the failure to respect human rights is invariably the result of the corrupting influence of powerful special interests on government. In the case of healthcare policy, an examination of “reform” efforts reveals an uncanny desire on the part of elected representatives to preserve a system based on private health insurance participation despite clear calls from citizens for a publicly-financed, publicly-administered, single-payer system.