The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.
So I can`t show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.
Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti.
The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.
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