CODE OF ETHICS

Code of Ethics

Code of Ethics

Health care as a right

The most important moral principle driving the desire to reform health care, of course, is the belief in individual moral right to health. In The News consistently indicate that about 37 million Americans lack health insurance. (Waymack, 2002) (This number may be misleading. What does this really mean that, within one year, 37 million Americans lack health insurance at some time. At any given time, about 17 million go without insurance. And for the entire year, only about 9 million people do not have insurance.) And to the rest of the middle class is too easy, the Administration stresses that anyone can lose their coverage is very easy at a time when most needed.

Note, however, that such reasons have no special moral weight, if we assume some kind of health care. Millions of Americans can not afford the fancy cars, fancy homes, yachts or expensive restaurant meals. But society does not becry as morally unacceptable. Neither the state mandate on moral grounds, that the government provide these families with the means to obtain such goods and services. So health care must be morally different. (Waymack, 2002)

Many people believe that health care is a basic human need, the main way that the high price of the car (or even lower the price of one) is not. Experts give different moral arguments in support of the view that health is a fundamental moral right. Daniels, for example, argues that without proper medical care of ill people are losing their basic freedoms and basic equality. (Armstrong, Whitlock, 2005) Loewy, on the other hand, argues that suffering is bad because we all have a moral obligation to come to the aid of those suffering in our community (see "Additional information").(Waymack, 2002) It is this sense of equality in basic needs of our time, when serious illness and / or chronic disability in danger, that the driving force Clintons' emphatic, unwavering commitment to universal coverage. No person shall be no access to health care only because of the inability to pay for it.

The economy and morality

The high cost of medical care also stimulates the desire to reform health care. Health care now accounts for about 14 percent of our gross national product. Whether the employee, the employer, the taxpayer, or deficit financing cost for future taxpayers, who has to raise the health care tab. And as the cost of medical care and health insurance rose in the dramatic and ever-increasing levels of each of the above-mentioned billpayers expressed his desire to pay less, or at least, to prevent or deter any further increases. (Waymack, 2002)

It's silly to imagine that the resources gained from the rationalization of the health care system will adequately cover the growing demand for medical services, while offering to reduce costs to the consumer. (Armstrong, Whitlock, 2005) Yes, we all want more health care, but only if it does not cost more. We are very reluctant to consider spending more on health care, ...