Question

Which of the following perspectives were argued that the US needs to adopt a universal healthcare system to account for the lack of access to affordable health care for low income population​

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When examining the concept of health care as a ‘right’, one may consider it as either a legal or a moral one. Few would object to the proposition that accessible healthcare for all is in essence a moral right,8 however, less would be of the opinion that it is a universally legal one. In the buildup to the 2008 presidential election, when questioned about whether health care was a right, a privilege, or a responsibility, then-Senator Obama asserted that health care should be a right. In Obama's argument he cited the case of his mother's struggle with cancer, he suggested that there was a fundamental injustice with a country not entitling it's sick to healthcare due to their inability to pay.1 The Affordable Care Act, discussed in the 2012 presidential campaign, is projected to substantially reduce the number of uninsured in every age, income group and state, and thus increase access to care.9