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Essay / Proposition 45: The Health Care Debate in America
Continuing Ubel's analysis, an anonymous author of "The Right to Health Care" also believes that things can be improved when it comes to insurance illness and everything related to it. "In doing so, the standard of care could actually be improved, with health care financing decisions based on public health needs, and not distorted as they currently are by the profit-based priorities of health insurers and donors. 'other profit-maximizing actors in health care' (The Right to Health Care). This is related to Proposition 45, decisions are made regarding funding to maximize profits, not to improve the patient, so if passed this issue would be raised. The author begins this article by stating that the United States is not a member of the Economic and Social Rights Treaty, in part because of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which contains what are considered positive rights . Anonymous examines the government's rule not to impose obstacles to the realization of rights and to take all appropriate measures to fulfill its positive rights obligations. The author argues that when it comes to health care, governments cannot rely on the market to provide health care. Sick people cannot be penalized for needing care, especially in poor areas. Anonymous gives the statistic of forty-five million people who have no health insurance in the United States, followed by fifty million who have inadequate insurance. If a person's health insurance is already insufficient, wouldn't passing a bill like Proposition 45 only further inconvenience the carrier. For those without health insurance, Proposition 45 would hurt them much more given that they typically go to a clinic where they are seen for free or have a payment plan in place. The proposal would most likely result in a person without health insurance being unable to attend a clinic due to