Positive rights are rights that everyone is entitled to, including: the right to public education, access to public roads, and the right to healthcare . There are no guarantees when it comes to life, but having health insurance makes a huge difference in preventing, diagnosing and treating diseases. Of course, having insurance itself is a great asset to ensuring medical care and keeping costs down, but not all insurance programs are created equal. Insurance programs come with warnings, exclusions, different co-payments, and access to certain doctors and hospitals, which creates an ethical dilemma. Getting the best care is subjective in most cases, but money can buy almost anything, including the best care. While those living in poverty have access to healthcare, that doesn't mean they receive the best or the same care as those who are wealthy. Living in a capitalist society, wealthier Americans enjoy bigger homes, nicer cars, better education, and even healthcare. . Even if we lived in a capitalist society where everyone had access to the same basic healthcare program, the rich could still afford better care. The wealthy are able to pay more in terms of copays, prescription costs and the ability to go outside this country's healthcare system to seek help. When you have available resources then the sky is the limit, where the poor have very limited options. They will be confined to their health coverage program and will not have the luxury of seeking additional care. “Poor patients often receive lower-quality care in the hospital, have more barriers to recovery, and experience higher morbidity and mortality than patients with higher incomes” (Dracup). The United States is… in the middle of the paper… ….standards and practices are more uniform based on circumstances and not loopholes, exceptions, or lack of insurance. Everyone should receive the same preventive care and be able to receive the same treatment options regardless of location, income or age. Competition in the market can be good, but there are many complexities in the healthcare industry and many people can go unnoticed while others can be cheated. Works Cited C. Wayne Sells and Robert Wm. Blum, “Morbidity and Mortality Among U.S. Adolescents: An Overview of Data and Trends,” AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH vol. 86, n. 4 (April 1996), pages. 513-519.R. Wilkinson and K. Pickett, The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger, Bloomsbury Press, NY, 2009, especially pages 49-173. Income Inequalities, Health and the Garrison State by Christopher Schaefer