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UNIVERSAL AND QUALITY HEALTH CARE:
PUBLIC OR PRIVATE? SYMPOSIUM, SPRING 2024
INTRODUCTION
GREGORY SISK*
But a Samaritan traveler who came upon [the robbed
and beaten man] was moved with compassion at the
sight. He approached the victim, poured oil and wine
over his wounds and bandaged them. Then he lifted him
up on his own animal, took him to an inn and cared for
him.1
Access to quality health care is essential to human thriving, indeed,
to human survival. Last year when speaking to health care workers, Pope
Francis said: A world that rejects the sick, that does not assist those who
cannot afford care, is a cynical world with no future. Let us always remember
this: health care is not a luxury, it is for everyone.2 The culture of care has
long been upheld in human societies around the world, predating the familiar
story of the Good Samaritan.
Although nearly all agree on the aspirational ideal of access to
quality health care, difficult questions remain as to how best to achieve that
goal in a manner that does not create more harm than it cures. The
conventional wisdom has been that a public health model may succeed in
providing universal coverage but at the significant cost of quality health care.
By contrast, while a largely private model may provide high quality health
care to those who can afford it, many are left without meaningful access.
In this symposium, we heard from leading scholars and those on the
front lines of health care provision on the subjects of universal access to
quality health care, including both public and private models. In addition,
* Gregory Sisk is the Laghi Distinguished Chair in Law, University of St. Thomas
School of Law (Minnesota), Co-Director of the Murphy Institute on Catholic
Thought, Law and Business, and Faculty Advisor to Spring Symposium 2024.
1 Luke 10:33-34 (New American Bible).
2 Carol Glatz, Health Care is a Universal Right, Not a Luxury, Pope Says, NAT'L
CATH. REP. (Jan. 17, 2023), https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-news/health-
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