Wednesday, October 1, 2008

No ID, No health care?!?

What defines a deserving or non-deserving population? What factors characterize these populations? Who are we to place them in these categories and deny them from anything that is beneficial to their physical, emotional, and mental well being. These people are living in horrible conditions, are constantly ill, and have little to no access to basic health care or clean running water. Suffering from depression and anxiety from having to live day by day. I understand why citizens would be angry to share health resources with them, because they do not pay their debt to society due to their form of income. However, to deliberately deny them access to those basic resources simply because they lack a passport or because they are seen as the "vulnerable population" is not going to prevent them from continuing to live in illegal Gypsies camps or from practicing their trade. Instead it only increases the amount of illness in their population and their need to work harder at what they do. By providing even the basic health care resources, especially the preventative measures, the Gypsies population would be in better health conditions. Just because they do not hold a passport or ID does not make them any less of a human being, yes they are not considered citizens of a that country (which is another topic in itself to be discussed at another time) but they are still people that hold a right to live in good health, and have access to it.

I leave you with an example: Two people are brought into the emergency room, both involved in car accident, both are in severe conditions: however one is turned away. That person is you. You are in another country, and you are turned away because you do not speak the language properly, you look foreign and because you do not hold proper identification from that country. Does this seem fair?

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