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Health Care: Right or Privilege?

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November 01, 2009
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Do we have a right to healthcare, and to good high quality healthcare, in any precise and defensible sense? Or is the "right to healthcare" just a nice way to say it would be very nice if everyone had healthcare? Ken and John take a philosophical lens to the alleged right to healthcare and health insurance with Laurence Baker from the Center for Health Policy at Stanford University.

Laurence Baker, Professor of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University

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