Medical Care as a Right A Refutation

Question: Who does this support? Who has medical rights? What does this say about patients rights? How does this relate to modern day medical care? Do you feel people are deprived of services? Why? How do you feel regarding this authors opinion? Answer: R.M. Sade, Medical Care as a Right: A Refutation, New England Journal of Medicine 285 (1971): 1281, 1289 Sades research on medical care, he supports the doctor stating that medical care is service payables at a fee for his upkeep, indicating that it is immoral for patients to expect provision of care without paying for it. Patients right to seek medical care is entirely dependent on their ability to pay the doctor providing medical services, and; hence, provision of care without remuneration is not a privilege. Concerning modern day care, Sade is of the opinion that patients in need of care get a turn down due to lack of funds to pay for the services denying them the medical care they need. Patients in need of care experience deprivation of the services when they are not able to pay for the service either in cash or by use of insurance cover, which is basically because the provision of care is dependent on the patients ability to pay. Sades opinion reveals that there is the need to have remuneration for the provision of services to the professionals providing care as this money is put to use by them to meet their needs. However, Sades opinion has a bias as it only focuses on the money thus not giving any regard to patients right to access care even without money especially in emergency cases where there is no financial preparedness. P.H. Elias, (Letter to Editor), New England Journal of Medicine 314, no. 6 (1986):391 Elias research supports that insurance companies providing medical cover have made provision of care a business placing the patient lower than the company. In turn, this depicts physicians as those who have a money-orientation and lack dedication to their work. He is of the opinion that patients have rights to access care with or without a medical cover. Elias reveals that patients have the rights to medical care but due to the influx of insurance companies, it has; however, become a business for the companies. In modern day, care for patients from physicians has become a business depriving those patients who are not financially capable medical care. Patients without a cover or cash have no access to care. Provision of medical care to patients ought to be offered even without payment as it is their right. Physicians have been depicted as money-oriented and professions without a dedication to their work or have a concern to the patients. However, the opinion does not have any consideration of the source of income for the professions if they chose to treat without any remuneration. References R.M. Sade, Medical Care as a Right: A Refutation, New England Journal of Medicine 285 (1971): 1281, 1289 P.H. Elias, (Letter to Editor), New England Journal of Medicine 314, no. 6 (1986):391