Right to Affordable Healthcare Act
A resolution to modify universal standards of healthcare.
Category: Health | Strength: Strong | Proposed by:
Aden Protectorate
The General Assembly,BELIEVING that it is the duty of this Assembly to insure the well-being, happiness and health of the people of the world;
ALSO BELIEVING in the interest of the duty of this Assembly, that every person should have access to adequate, universal Healthcare either free of charge or at the a minimal coast applicable to the person, operation or prescription;
APPLAUDS those nations who have provided universal healthcare, free of charge, to their citizens;
RECOGNZING that healthcare can be a costly service, whether free or not;
ALSO RECOGNIZING that to support national healthcare budgets in countries that healthcare is provided free of charge, heavy taxes are often levied in order to sustain the costs of a free, universal healthcare system;
ENSHRINES the Right to Affordable Healthcare for the citizens in those nations who are members of this Assembly;
HEREBY establishes the following principles of the Right to Affordable Healthcare;
- No persons under 18 (a minor), or family of a minor shall be charged when performing medical operations upon a minor;
- No person shall have to pay over 3% of their income on any medical operation or perscription;
- No hospital or medical establishment may turn away a person who is in need of medical operations;
- Persons who have been victims of an medical operation that has been executed wrongly have the right to demand compensation, unless a wager has been signed stating that said person cannot demand compensation;
MANDATES that nations accepting funds from the World Assembly Healthcare Fund, undergo quarterly reviews to determine that the funds are being used in the appropriate manner, which shall be the implementation and funding of healthcare programs, nations misusing funds shall have all funding supplied by the WAHF suspended, with possibility to reapply within three years;
