World Bank’s Kim Says Health Care Is A Human Right

Bloomberg News: World Bank’s Kim Says Health Care ‘Is a Right for Everyone’
“Health care is a human right that all nations should seek to provide for everyone to help foster economic growth and political stability, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said. ‘Health care is a right for everyone, in every country, rich or poor,’ Kim said in remarks [Tuesday] at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. ‘Not providing health, education, and social protection is fundamentally unjust — in addition to being a bad economic and political strategy’…” (Peralta, 1/14).

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