TY - JOUR T1 - Human rights and the national interest: migrants, healthcare and social justice JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 269 LP - 272 DO - 10.1136/jme.2005.014829 VL - 33 IS - 5 AU - Phillip Cole Y1 - 2007/05/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/33/5/269.abstract N2 - 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. ER -