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What is one of the current topics of where social justice intersects with healthcare in the United States?

Many people believe the way healthcare is limited by income is fundamentally unjust. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms actually specifies that healthcare is a fundamental human right. Most developed countries have a national system of socialized medicine where every citizen has the right to health care. The main exception is the United States, where, for example, a baby that is born into a poor family will not get the same quality of healthcare as one born into a rich family, and a middle class family can be bankrupted by medical bills. People often find the link between wealth and lifespan even more unjust, with the wealthy living several years longer than people with a lower income. Although the Affordable Care Act was intended to remedy some of these injustices, the Republicans in Congress and state legislatures have worked hard to block it and to maintain the status quo, in which healthcare in the United States is restricted by income, inadvertently (they are not poorly intentioned) giving the wealthy having far greater access to healthcare than the rest of us. 

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