Pope Francis Thursday, condemned inequality in health care, particularly in rich countries, saying governments had a duty to ensure the common good for all its citizens.
“Increasingly sophisticated and costly treatments are available to ever more limited and privileged segments of the population,” Francis said in an address to a conference of European members of the World Medical Association.
“This raises questions about the sustainability of health care delivery and about what might be called a systemic tendency toward growing inequality in health care,” he said.
Meanwhile, " Francis did not mention any countries. Healthcare is a big issue in the United States, where President Donald Trump has vowed to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, introduced by his predecessor, Barack Obama, which aimed to make it easier for lower-income households to get health insurance.
He added that health care legislation needed a “broad vision and a comprehensive view of what most effectively promotes the common good in each concrete situation.”
In speaking of end-of-life issues, Francis re-affirmed the Catholic Church’s long-standing teaching that it is morally acceptable for a patient or a family to suspend or reject “disproportionate measures” to keep a terminally ill person alive.
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