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Encyclopedia: Healthcare system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The provision of critical healthcare treatment is often regarded as a basic human right, regardless of whether the individual has the means to pay—at the same moment some forms of healthcare treatment cost more than a typical family's life savings. |
 | | Healthcare professionals are bound by law and their oaths of service to provide lifesaving treatment. |
 | | Healthcare reform is a general rubric used for discussing major policy changes--for the most part, governmental policy changes--to any existing healthcare system in a given place. |
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