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Normalizing an American Right to Health
This book argues against the conventional wisdom
that a U.S. right to health is out of reach. It
shows that the necessary change is not
extraordinary but familiar and that the law has
already laid considerable groundwork in ordinary
statutes and case law. This descriptive
foundation, revealed through the application of
well-accepted theories of rights, has simply yet
to be either acknowledged as, or relied upon, for
rights-building. The book then moves from the
descriptive task of showing where a right to
health already exists in our legal corpus to the
prescriptive goal of showing how we could
feasibly and meaningfully expand the right
through ordinary policies that are widely used
in other domains, including impact assessments
and state-sponsored reinsurance. By
normalizing American health rights discourse and
bringing a right to health, including a right to
health care, within the domain of ordinary policy
debate, this book arms health advocates for the
sharp political contests over health that we face
today. Amid the prevailing neoliberal,
neo-Lochnerian ideologies that have led us to a
dead-end, this book proposes a rival ethic that
has been developing right under our noses, one
focused on embodied justice, where the priority
is squarely on the human and our capacity for
suffering and flourishing.
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