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JOB’s Six Principles for a Just and Ethical
Health Care System for Wisconsin
Health care is not an optional commodity. It is a
fundamental good and a fundamental right. Healthy children – and thus a
health care system accessible to all – is part of our covenant with
future generations. With this in mind, JOB (Justice Overcoming Borders)
affirms the following six principles for an ethical and just health care
system:
1. The system must offer
universal access.
It must include everyone, regardless of their age, medical
history, race, genetic background, or ability to pay. It must be
especially mindful of those most vulnerable, such as children and
those who lack political or economic power.
2. The system must be
comprehensive.
It must meet the full range of health care needs, including
primary, preventive and long-term care, acute care, and treatment for
mental illness and alcohol and drug addiction.
3. The system must provide high-quality
care.
Health care is too important a public good not to be good.
It must convey a genuine respect for human life and dignity, and
insure quality care for persons in the womb, throughout infancy,
childhood and adult life, and at the end of life.
4. The system must be fair and
promote the common good.
It must not create a two-nation system. The costs and burdens must
be spread across the entire community. A fair sharing of benefits and
burdens binds the community together and ties one generation to the
next.
5. The system must be responsive to
choice.
It must provide some measure of freedom to choose our doctors, the
treatment we receive, and our health care plans. It must engage the
patient in preventive, acute, rehabilitative and long-term care, and
respect the religious and ethical values of individuals and
institutions.
6. The system must restrain costs and
use our resources wisely.
The system must correct the imbalance between our financial
investment in health care and our ability to provide a just
distribution of services. We must be good stewards of our community’s
resources by reducing administrative costs, striving for efficiency,
and simplifying the delivery of care.
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