COMMENT: Having access to care is not a promise of health.
The public health crisis of Covid-19 has not only turned the spotlight on the basic human right of access to healthcare, but also on the need for people to take personal responsibility for their health.
The continued focus on health as a human right, and on the accessibility of care, disempowers people from taking responsibility for their own health. And we confuse healthcare with health — having access to care is not a promise of health. It doesn’t help to have free healthcare, such as the proposed NHI, but people make poor lifestyle choices — in terms of healthy eating, exercise and substance abuse, for example — and don’t take responsibility for their own health.
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