Author: Peter Phillips
Peter Phillips is a professor of sociology at Sonoma State University and the director of Project Censored. He recently coauthored a research study titled “Practices in Healthcare and Disability Insurance: Delay, Diminish, Deny, and Blame,” published online at www.pro jectcensored.org/Health_Study_Final.pdf.
Healthcare for All Is a Human Right
The nations of the world agreed in 1948 that healthcare was an innate right for all human beings. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights passed by the United Nations—and signed by the United States—reads as follows: “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of …