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Showing posts with label health care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health care. Show all posts
Monday, March 14, 2011
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Not a Holiday Destination
contributed by Laura GonzálezFormer Marine Becomes Face of New Vieques Battle
by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
October 11, 2009
Marrero is a key witness in a lawsuit seeking billions of dollars in compensation for illnesses that past and current Vieques residents have linked to the bombing range, where the U.S. and its allies trained for conflicts from Vietnam to Iraq. ... Marrero, who was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in New York City, has had colon cancer twice. He is losing his vision and suffers from more than dozen other illnesses, including Lou Gehrig's disease, that he believes are lingering effects of his 18 months at Camp Garcia. He said he was recently diagnosed with a new bout of cancer that is inoperable in part because of a lung disease that requires him to stay on oxygen around the clock."
Click here to read the entire article on 'The New York Times' website.
Read Laura's article about Vieques, 'Paradise Lost,' in the latest issue of The Yale Journal of Human Rights.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Article 25
THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, Article 25, Part 1: Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well- being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
In the on- going American debate over public health care a variety of negative opinions have been espoused (the economic crisis makes public health care untimely, America is heading towards socialism, creating universal health care essentially legalizing death panels, "when Obama lies grandma dies"), and these opinions have been expressed in constitutional ways (protests and unruly behavior define freedom of expression, town hall meetings are the epitome of freedom of association, and bringing loaded guns to talks by President Obama are the American citizens' realization of the infamous Second Amendment: the right to bear arms).
Throughout the debate, the health systems of Canada and Great Britain have been referenced as examples of government- healthcare failures. One British European member of Parliament even went on FOX News to explain that NHS (National Health Services, the name of the Great Britain public healthcare) was a national disaster. He was later rebuked by many Members of the British Parliament, including David Cameron, the leader of the opposition party in British parliament, who called his views, "eccentric."
Additionally, this article in British paper, 'The Times,' which is about the National Healthcare System in the United Kingdom, could give Maureen Dowd of 'The New York Times' a run for her money.
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