RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Human rights and the national interest: migrants, healthcare and social justice
JF Journal of Medical Ethics
JO J Med Ethics
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 269
OP 272
DO 10.1136/jme.2005.014829
VO 33
IS 5
A1 Phillip Cole
YR 2007
UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/33/5/269.abstract
AB The UK government has recently taken steps to exclude certain groups of migrants from free treatment under the National Health Service, most controversially from treatment for HIV. Whether this discrimination can have any coherent ethical basis is questioned in this paper. The exclusion of migrants of any status from any welfare system cannot be ethically justified because the distinction between citizens and migrants cannot be an ethical one.