A Right to Honour Our Instincts:
Examining the responsibility of a society
to the well-being of its people through
national healthcare systems
A constant issue facing economically well off cultures, such as present day Canada, is that of wealth distribution: of who is entitled to the benefits stemming from the resources and capital which the society holds, to what extent they are entitled and of what type of institutions should the society offer to protect these rights of entitlement. In this paper I will argue that in such societies each citizen should be legally entitled to full access of a national, single tier healthcare system, and will prove such by dissecting opposing theories to show that at the root to all schools of morality is the unconditional value for human life; a value which I will then prove can only be truly endorsed through such non-exclusive welfare systems.
Libertarian theory, perhaps the biggest opponent of all mandatory citizen funded programs,......
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