Authors Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD, and Lois Snyder Sulmasy, JD, recognize health as a human right based in the intrinsic dignity and equality of all patients and supporting the patient–physician relationship and health systems that promote equitable access to appropriate health care.  They propose the U.S. should move closer to respecting, protecting, and fulfilling for all the opportunity for health.

The ACP Ethics Manual states, “The principle of distributive justice requires that we seek to equitably distribute the life-enhancing opportunities afforded by health care. How to accomplish this distribution is the focus of intense debate.”  Read article>>