n some countries people would do anything to receive any type of health care to keep themselves and their families alive and healthy, but most of them barely even have water to drink. Here in America we have healthcare right at our fingertips and sometimes take it for granted. A central issue that we as a whole see lacking is compassion and dignity throughout our health care. Rafael Campo and Tony Kushner seem to bring that more into focus between their writings. For example in the poem Curing AIDS by Campo just shows how self-centered and ignorant some people are. “A hypocrite across the room complains that it’s her right to walk away- to walk away is her right”. She is basically saying she wants them to just turn their back to healthcare. …show more content…
He was one who couldn’t even come to terms with the diagnosis he actually had. Instead he denied having AIDS and said he had liver cancer. Having AIDs was considered being the gay disease and if you had that then you must be gay. He being a wealthy and somewhat important man could not go on to live in public with a status like that. Comparing to Campos poems “Towards Curing AIDs” there was a man who was denied care because of his disease or having no health insurance. Roy is like the line in the poem “what I would Give” about being hubris. Hubris to dictate to his doctor of what disease he has and how it will be treated and dealt with. He feared being vulnerable and rejected in societies eyes. I can see the emotions behind Campos’s poems and the anger and emotions amongst healthcare professionals and the patients he writes about. They show that maybe there is some sort of hope and compassion left in some people and that in Angels in America there is pain and denial as well as discrimination. “Homosexuals are men who know nobody and who nobody knows” ”who have zero clout”. (46) This is something Roy says and it just shows that no matter how important or wealthy you are Roy is not going to pick up the phone and tell the president he needs top treatment to cure his AIDS. He could never admit to
Daniel Stone, a practicing physician in internal medicine, writes “Our Big Appetite for Healthcare” to argue how California’s healthcare needs to change. In the article, Stone discusses how California’s “more is better” health care is costly, inefficient, and insignificant. The author creates his argument with the methods of appeals; logos, a logical appeal, and ethos, an ethical appeal. Stone establishes his argument by mainly using logos with indicative reasoning to support his argument.
HIV is a serious issue that is commonly pushed off and considered an irrelevant topic. In “AIDS, Inc.” by Helen Epstein, the topics of lifestyle brands and government funded organizations were discussed, and provided readers with an understanding of the depths of the disease. The excerpt discusses programs (i.e. loveLife) that had the potential and opportunity to save and inform many lives, but failed to do so, which continues to be a problem today. Our government is capable of helping and educating those who are infected, and anyone who could become infected. Instead of acting like having the disease is something to be ashamed of, governments should fund clinics that provide free HIV testing and free protection to all genders, create a structured
However, reading this article does not stop the reader from dealing with other emotions such as, anger and the self determination to do what is right. In Paragraph 8, Parker states “Poverty is remembering. It is remembering quitting school in junior high because “nice” children had been so cruel about my clothes and my smell”. This sentence is effective in connecting with someone who has ever been bullied in school because of weary clothing and angers a reader who sees a young girl bullied her way out of an education. Ethos, Parker uses in paragraph 14, Parker states, “Others like me are all around you. Look at us with an angry heart, anger that will help you help me. Anger that will let you tell of me. The poor are always silent. Can you be silent too?” This effectively evokes self-determination from an individual who knows that there can be a way to help people such as Parker and her children. By not being silent, by doing what Parker is asking, anyone who reads this article can be effective in doing what is ethically right when it comes to standing up for those in desperate need facing
When first diagnosed with AIDS, he instantly knew that the disease would lead to speculation of his sexuality. Roy redefines the traditional definition of a ‘homosexual’ and reclaims it as “[Men] who know nobody and who nobody knows. Who have zero clout” (51) and is unable to get important matters dealt with, which he believes he can, even though according to the traditional definition of a homosexual being a man who sleeps with another man -- this is exactly what he is. Strangely, Roy states that “Homosexuals are men who in fifteen years of trying cannot get a pissant anti-discrimination bill through City Council” (51), but even if they succeed in passing an anti-discrimination bill, others’ judgement of homosexuals would not change. As a consequence, people with similar mindsets to that of Roy that have oppressed the gay community and stripped them of their rights as citizens. Not only being isolated from the general populace, but also being associated with the negative connotations of AIDS; even though studies have shown that anyone can get AIDS and that it is not isolated to a single sexuality like many
...oral responsibility to our communities and our fellow citizens. We can’t in good conscience stand by as millions of our neighbors are denied to basic health care. Nearly 1,500 public events were taken place in all fifty states and the District of Columbia to bring commonly community leaders to retain that all Americans have rights to health care coverage. “For far too many years, our nation has not lived up to its full potential by delaying the day when all Americans will have health care coverage.” (Suffer Health Care Gaps as a Result) Health care is a right, not a privilege.
She uses a string full of rhetorical questions throughout her article, as well, to make us contemplate whether people do deeds out of compassion, fear, or something else. She uses rhetorical questions such as “Was it fear or compassion that motivated that gift?”(6), “...what compels this woman to feed this man? Pity? Care? Compassion? Or does she simply want to rid her shop of his troublesome presence?”(9), and “Could it be that the homeless, like those ancients, are reminding us of our common humanity?”(14). These questions make the audience think and contemplate why these people did these acts of kindness. Ascher includes some of these rhetorical questions at the end of both of the narratives to force the readers to quickly analyze the situation and decide what the motivation was. As a result, I can conclude that one woman did it out of fear while the other did it out of compassion; therefore, this proves that people are not born compassionate, but they develop the quality later on in life. This is more effective instead of just expressing how she personally feels about each
Both are fed up with the public’s lack of concern for the problems that continually plague their people, and call for fair treatment. In “For My People,” Walker explicitly says how “no one cared” about her people’s problems. Similarly, Native protesters feel the lack of concern for their problems in the way they successfully organized such a large and visible protest, yet nothing changed for their people. Both Walker and protesters push back against this lack of concern by hoping for a new generation that will act as the catalyst for change. Both hope for the flawed system in place, which treats their people as second-class citizens, to be disbanded and replaced by one where their people share in the freedom experienced by those who are not oppressed. Walker writes, “let a people loving freedom come to growth,” and Native protesters would agree: a more passionate, new generation must be the ones to bring justice to their
suffer alone. The purpose of this paper is to point out some of the myths
“Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a blood-borne virus typically transmitted via sexual intercourse, shared intravenous drug paraphernalia, and mother-to-child transmission (MTCT), which can occur during the birth processor during breastfeeding.” There is no cure for HIV or AIDS but over time different types of medications have been developed that slows down the advancement of the disease. AIDS is a lethal disease that is caused by HIV. HIV destroys the immune system and causes the body to not be able to fight off any diseases.
The just delivery of health care falls into a pattern of rights. Medicaid and the US political view aside, the right to health care is a basic human right whose only requirement is that someone be a human being regardless of their gender, ethnicity, or socioeconomic class. That is, the right is a non-relational right that every human needs irrespective of differences in individual goals (Lomasky, 1981). As a positive right, it is the obligation of others to provide for one’s health needs, within limits. In satisfying the right to health care, society contributes toward the fulfillment of the right for the individual. In Medicaid for example, the right is supported through taxation, among other mechanisms and delivered by a
“The only real nation is humanity” (Farmer 123). This quote represents a huge message that is received in, Tracy Kidder’s, Mountains Beyond Mountains. This book argues that universal healthcare is a right and not a privilege. Kidder’s book also shows the audience that every individual, no matter what the circumstances, is entitled to receive quality health care. In the book Kidder represents, Paul Farmer, a man who spends his entire life determined to improve the health care of impoverished areas around the world, namely Haiti, one of the poorest nations in the world. By doing this the audience learns of the horrible circumstances, and the lack of quality health care that nations like Haiti live with everyday, why every person has the right to healthcare no matter what, and how cost effectiveness should not determine whether or not these people get to live or die. Two texts that also argue this idea are Monte Leach’s “Ensuring Health Care as a Global Human Right,” and Darshak Sanghavi’s “Is it Cost Effective to Treat the World’s Poor.” Leach’s article is an interview with Benjamin Crème that illustrates why food, shelter, education, and healthcare are human rights that have to be available to everyone. He shares many of the same views on health care as Farmer, and the two also share similar solutions to this ongoing problem. Leach also talks about the rapidly growing aids epidemic, and how it must be stopped. Like farmer, he also argues that it is easier to prevent these diseases then to cure them. Furthermore, Sanghavi’s article represents many of the questions that people would ask about cost effectiveness. Yet similar to Farmer’s views, Sanghavi argues that letting the poor d...
In the modern day, health care can be a sensitive subject. Politically, health care in America changes depending on whom is President. Obamacare and Trumpcare are different policies regarding health care, which many people have passionate feelings towards. However, not many Americans are informed about Norman Daniels’ view on health care. Throughout this paper I will be outlining Norman Daniels’ claims on the right to health care, and the fundamental principles in which he derives to construct his argument. By means of evaluating Daniels’ argument, I will then state my beliefs regarding the distributive justice of health care.
She shows it in the sentences, “We Americans like need that takes places far from home, so we can feel simultaneously self-congratulatory and safe from the possibly that hard times could be lurking around the corner. Maybe that’s why our mother told us to think of the children in Africa when we wouldn’t clean our plates. I stopped believing in that when I found myself in a bodega with a distraught woman after New York City had declared a snow day; she had three kids who ate breakfast and lunch at school, her food stamps had been held up because of some bureaucratic snafu, and she was considering whether to pilfer food from the senior center where she worked as an aide.” Sense it isn’t in our morales to let kids go hungry this shows that we are letting kids go hungry all the time and pushes the
Magic Johnson once stated, “You can’t get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.” AIDS and HIV is not something you can receive by touching someone’s outer skin. AIDS and HIV can only be transmitted when an infected persons; fluids meets with another person. AIDS and HIV is one of the most deadliest disease in the world that already has killed 1.6 million civilians. People need to understand the facts behind AIDS and HIV so people do not treat others who are infected like they are going to kill them. Everyone has possibility of contracting AIDS and HIV; it can change one’s world in a heart beat.
Similarly, 1.65 million Native Americans lack basic health care and in Little Singer Community School students are required to carry their chairs from class to class due to the lack of supplies. They also received an education in a school from the Great Depression era with mice infestations. This idea is unthinkable to the standard upper class human like the doctor in Kino’s neighborhood. However, for people like Veronica and the students of Little Singer, it is their day to day life. For the millions also living in poverty due to cultural discrimination nothing is taken advantage