GU Community for Health Care Justice
Section: GU Community for Health Care Justice
Assumptions
- U.S. health care is neither just nor sustainable.
- Politics and pragmatism, not ethics or justice, drive health policy and politics.
- Georgetown University, as a Jesuit institution committed to justice and endowed with superb scholarly resources in health care policy and politics, theology, ethics, law and economics, is not only well positioned to advance the cause of just health care, but has a moral responsibility to do so.
Purpose
- To nurture a Georgetown University Community for Health Care Justice around just health care at Georgetown University. An ongoing project in understanding just health care and discerning what Georgetown's contributions to its achievement might be that results in just health care becoming the focus of interdisciplinary scholarship and initiatives.
- To so explicate and champion just health care that:
- We help frame the moral issues & promote a national dialogue about them.
- Justice becomes a common theme of all serious debate about health reform.
- Justice becomes as important a criterion for U.S. health policy as is efficiciency or efficacy.
- Justice is the measure of any politically viable proposal for health reform.
- Conditions are created that allow politicians to realistically introduce just legislation.
- Georgetown becomes known for its commitment to just health care and sought after as a resource by press, politicians and the public seeking to understand and accomplish just health care.
- Georgetown attracts "partners" similarly motivated and engaged and contributes to a national network of efforts that advance just health care in the U.S. and globally.