Human rights and the national interest: migrants, healthcare and social justice.
The UK government has recently taken steps to exclude certain groups of migrants from free treatment under the National Health Service, most controversially from treatment for HIV. Whether this discrimination can have any coherent ethical basis is questioned in this paper. The exclusion of migrants of any status from any welfare system cannot be ethically justified because the distinction between citizens and migrants cannot be an ethical one.
Cole
Phillip
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Middlesex University, Trent Park, Bramley Road, London N14 4YZ, UK. p.cole@mdx.ac.uk
D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000941:ethics*; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000628:therapy; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000941:ethics; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012935:Social Justice; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006113:United Kingdom