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How is it possible that healthcare is free in places like Canada yet ridiculously expensive in America, which is supposed to be known for being the land of opportunities? People in America are being scammed into paying for their own health and survival so the government continues to profit off of us. In Christopher Boruckis article When Healthcare Goes up in Tobacco Smoke: A Selective Healthcare System from a (European) Human Rights Perspective, Borucki explains why healthcare should be a human right for all by using excellent use of pathos and logos to get his point across.

Boruckis was able to capture my attention when he began to use the rhetorical appeals in the quotes within his article such as, “Persons with disabilities constitute a vulnerable population group in Europe, systematically exposed to high levels of poverty and social exclusion, with adverse effects on their health and well-being” (Borucki 2). This quote shows good use of pathos because when the readers hear about people with disabilities being vulnerable and exposed to things such as poverty, it is absolutely heartbreaking. That specific quote will affect people with disabilities, as well as people who know others with disabilities because of how close it hits to home. Another helpful quote that was found within Boruckis album was “The right to health care ensures access of all individuals to equal opportunities to achieve an optimal health status” (Borucki 4). This second quote uses great use of logos because Borucki is absolutely right about health care ensuring equal opportunities for all. Instead of having to pay weeks worth of salary for a doctors appointment, we will all be free to do as we please and visit the doctor whenever we have to in order to stay healthy. Logically this quote explains how much easier life would be if we had free health care, as well as how positively it would affect the American people to be able to have equal and fair rights yo survive. Even though people with disabilities or homeless people are seen as less human, they are not any less human than we are and they should be able to take care of themselves by calling up a doctor without having to pay their life savings for a quick check up.

In conclusion, Boruckis article was very successful at explaining why health care should be a human right for all, instead of an expensive bill that will have everyone in debt for a twenty minute check up. However, there were not many signs of ethos within the article, which was a bummer because it would have been great to add in some credible people and sources into the mix.

Works Cited

Borucki, Christopher. “When Healthcare Goes up in Tobacco Smoke: A Selective Healthcare System from a (European) Human Rights Perspective.” Utrecht Law Review, vol. 15, no. 3, Dec. 2019, pp. 6–26. EBSCOhost, doi:10.36633/ulr.539.