Debate: Is Health Care a Right?
Justice Talking
National Public Radio
3/17/2008
Original Link: http://www.justicetalking.org/viewprogram.asp?progID=653#Segment2
Host Margot Adler speaks with professors Russell Roberts and Dr. Quentin Young about whether or not Americans have a right to health care.
Russell Roberts is a professor of economics at George Mason University, the J. Fish and Lillian F. Smith Distinguished Scholar at the Mercatus Center, and a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Professor Roberts’ latest book is “The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity,” and he also runs the podcast EconTalk.
Dr. Quentin Young is a practicing internist and clinical professor of preventive medicine and community health at the University of Illinois Medical Center. He is the founder and chairman of Health & Medicine Policy Research Group, and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program.
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