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Global Health And Human Rights Imperative, Patricia C. Kuszler
Global Health And Human Rights Imperative, Patricia C. Kuszler
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Open any magazine, click on a television news channel, or surf the net and you are likely to find global health highlighted as one of the foremost challenges of new millennium. First, this article will consider the meaning and measures of global health and detail the path to improved health and development prescribed by the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Second, it will trace the development of international human rights law as it relates to health. Third, it demonstrate how human rights and health, long traversing parallel routes, are in fact converging in the 21st Century quest for global health–a …
The Health Care Choice Act: The Individual Insurance Market And The Politics Of "Choice", Elizabeth Pendo
The Health Care Choice Act: The Individual Insurance Market And The Politics Of "Choice", Elizabeth Pendo
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The Health Care Choice Act of 2005 (HCCA) aims to reform perceived problems in the individual market, and is touted as part of the solution to the problem of the uninsured. It purports to allow individuals who are not eligible for or cannot afford group coverage to purchase an individual policy in and from any state. If passed, the HCCA would allow health insurers to offer individual policies of insurance from any state without being required to comply with the laws of the insured's own state. Its proponents claim that it would lower the cost of individual health insurance by …