Medicine as a luxury: the west treats vital pharmaceuticals as just another commodity. If poor countries can't afford filet, why should they get cheap drugs?
American Prospect, The, January, 2002 by Goozner, Merrill
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IT'S GENERALLY RECOGNIZED THAT PEOPLE HAVE THE right to eat. When famine breaks out, relief agencies rush food to the hungry. Politics and war may get in the way (indeed, they are often the causes of the famine). Sometimes relief efforts are too small or come too late. But the advanced industrial world usually acts as if it has a moral obligation to respond to a hunger crisis.
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In recent years, humanitarians have been taking a similar approach to global public health. Shouldn't we be rushing medicine to people who need it, no matter where they live and no matter how much money ...
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