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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Jane Sarashon

The NIH crafted one for patients enrolled in clinical trials, the American Hospital Association served one up in 1973, and many individual health providers like the University of Pennsylvania Hospital ( aka Penn Medicine) have developed patient bills of rights for consumers entering their hospital systems.

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Reflections on the United States Health Care System and the Right to Health

Bill of Health

has some of the world’s leading medical facilities and research institutions, and the ability to deliver the highest available quality of care, it ranks last among rich nations in providing equitable, accessible, affordable, and high-quality health care. urgently needs a rights-based approach to health.

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