Catholic Social teaching on healthcare
Catholic Social teaching views healthcare as a universal right that should be extended to every human being in the world. Notably, Catholics notes that health care services are not consumer goods and in this regard cannot be treated as a privilege when some people get the best services while others get nothing. Therefore, it is rather important to include the poor in healthcare for the most essential healthcare (Mirus, 2016). The church extended it view on healthcare by reviewing the notion of life as it applies to all people. It asserts that there is nobody in the world who has more right to live than the other. Based on this notion, it is therefore right to imply that nobody should have a better access to healthcare than the other.
In defining healthcare as a right for everybody, the church recognizes the complexity of offering equal healthcare services to all the people in the world. In this regard, the church confines it definition of healthcare to the most essential primary care at the most basic level. Therefore, the world should strive to ensure that healthcare is both reasonable and desirable in all counts. Due to the intricacy involved in specifying healthcare as a right, the church insists that the right to healthcare should not have a political background but it should rather derive it power from the moral duty and responsibility that we all have to assist our neighbours (Wooden, 2016). It is rather disturbing to see the manner in which politics has effect the flexibility and abilities of manner organization to offer even the most basic healthcare service. In this regard, right to healthcare should be discovered in moral duty as a true human right.
References
Ashley, B. M., O’rourke, K. D., & Ashley, B. M. (2007). Health care ethics: A theological analysis (p. 137). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
Mirus, J. (2016). In what sense is health a universal right?. Retrieved from https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otc.cfm?id=1385
Wooden, C. (2016). Health care is a right, not a privilege, pope says. Retrieved from http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2016/health-care-is-a-right-not-a-privilege-pope-says.cfm