Abstract
Providing adequate healthcare to individuals in the United States is an ambitious goal. Healthcare is at the confluence of medicine, politics, economics, philosophy, ethics, and the law. Many poignant questions are brought forth when examining this multifaceted issue: Does every individual deserve access to adequate healthcare? How does one quantify, establish, attribute, and enforce a uniform cost to healthcare? Is optimal healthcare only to be enjoyed by those with abundant resources? Some, including Martin Luther King, have contended that healthcare is a human right. Academics and politicians have spent many years attempting to conjure up answers to these fundamental questions. Sadly, during these times of heated and often ineffectual rhetoric, we are still without remedies to many of the healthcare disparities plaguing vulnerable groups. This article explores some of these disparities and reviews select laws in an effort to further the discussion of how healthcare and policy intersect in America.
Recommended Citation
Rahn K. Bailey,
Examination of Psychiatric Health Disparities & Selected Laws,
44
S. Ill. U. L.J.
63
(2019).
Available at:
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/siulj/vol44/iss1/4