Date of Award
2011
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Abstract
Human beings have two apparently conflicting fundamental rights. On the one hand, individuals have a right to health care as the United Nations declared in 1948. On the other hand, individuals have a right to liberty; that is, the freedom to make one's own health related choices, even poor ones. One goal of this essay is to show how to reconcile these two apparently conflicting core American values. This reconciliation is important, because a universal health care system that is fair and just must account for individual rights in tandem with attempts to address matters of social justice. In order for this reconciliation to occur, matters of individual responsibility, social responsibility, and social justice must be central to health care reform.
Extent
vi, 64 p.
Recommended Citation
Mantoni, Jennifer Lynn, "philosophical analysis of America's transformation to universal health care" (2011). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019. 361.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_6/361
Identifier
FADT3171680
Comments
by Jennifer Lynn Mantoni.|Vita.|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011.|Includes bibliography.|Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.|by Jennifer Lynn Mantoni.