The injustice in health care
Student’s Name: Jessie
Student ID: QING24958
Teacher: Lynken Ghose
Due Date: 27/08/2013
Word Count: 1350
Partner’s Name: Sylvia
Question: “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane” (Martin Luther King, Jr.). Do you agree with this statement? Write an essay persuading readers of your point of view. Support your argument with evidence from appropriate sources.
Nick Vujicic, the founder of Life Without Limbs Organization of Australia, said in his speech,” Attitude is Altitude.”(Nick Vujicic 2012). The implication is that one individual or even one institution is required to hold a correct and positive attitude towards health care and what is being embarked on or what it will be. This thereby leads to a goal of health and assures a promising future as expected. This clearly explains there shouldn’t be any injustice in health care since people have the same right to healthcare. However, the real situation is contrary, which I mean the Social inequalities in health status have expanded in recent years (Johan P. Mackenbach et al. 2008). As a result, the injustice in health care has caused lots of problems; for example, rich people can get a perfect medical treatment while some poor people don’t have enough money to afford health care, they even just choose to wait for death. According to these reasons, wealth inequality and healthcare inequality are not separable.
There are also some other different types of inequality such as educational inequality and the inequality of rights for men and women. As for educational inequality, Rousseau—a famous French thinker has said that education is a great tool to realize social justice and if education is fair, the society will be equal. However, because of so many reasons, this dream hasn’t been true. For example, the regional and urban-rural gap can cause the unfair education (Binh T.