VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI and other church leaders said it was the moral responsibility of nations to guarantee access to health care for all of their citizens, regardless of social and economic status or their ability to pay.
Access to adequate medical attention, the pope said in a written message Nov. 18, was one of the “inalienable rights” of man.
The pope lamented the great inequalities in health care around the globe. While people in many parts of the world aren’t able to receive essential medications or even the most basic care, in industrialized countries there is a risk of “pharmacological, medical and surgical consumerism” that leads to “a cult of the body,” the pope said.
“The care of man, his transcendent dignity and his inalienable rights” are issues that should concern Christians, the pope said.
Because an individual’s health is a “precious asset” to society as well as to himself, governments and other agencies should seek to protect it by “dedicating the equipment, resources and energy so that the greatest number of people can have access.”
Pope says health care an “inalienable right”
27 Comments to “Pope says health care an “inalienable right””
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So if you go an evil capitalist hospital and you can’t pay are you turned away?
NO.
Thus you have access regardless.
Illegal Aliens due it like candy.
Hell, now they even have the right t in-state tuition even if they aren’t legally a resident of this country let alone the state.
So what’s a little “free” health care…
oh, right, you want the government to control who lives and who dies. I see…
Government bureaucrats are infinitely better, more impartial, and more compassionate after all.