Talk:Philosophy of healthcare

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[edit] This article is awful - It should be deleted

It looks to me like a fork. It focuses heavily on the U.S. political controversies and looks like just another attempt to use WP to capture minds thinking about the debate in that country. Everything here could be covered in Medical ethics or Healthcare politics.

Whoever wrote the previous comment, (Hauskalainen), I would appreciate it if you would adhere to Wikipedia's talk-page guidelines, i.e. - signing your name with four tildes at the end of your comments. And with respect to the article, it is not entirely awful as you so whimsically claim. Although the article maintains a predominantly U.S. viewpoint toward healthcare issues, it also provides a substantial degree of philosophical insight into many of the pressing problems facing healthcare today. Granted that this article treats healthcare like a business rather than a social service, but that is precisely where European contributors, like yourself, need to come in and enhance the article. Thank you for your time. FitzColinGerald (talk) 15:30, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry. Failure to sign was an oversight. I am always logged in so I am not hard to track down. My first observation was that this was an article on the philosophy of health care and it does not even mention Hippocrates once. Then I noticed the preponderance of the rather tiresome debate issues in the U.S. which seems to infect so many WP articles on health. These are mostly local issues and not global ones. Maybe my comments were harsh, but there is indeed a huge overlap with the two alternative articles I suggest. I still think it is a fork and not worthy of retention.--Tom (talk) 20:50, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

I am not quite sure that I fully understand what you mean when you characterize this article as a "fork." If by fork you mean that this article takes bits and pieces from other articles and plays them off as its own, then I concur with your point. However, this is a philosophy article. And as such, I feel that its purpose is to compile, consolidate, and synthesize all relevant information on the topic of healthcare. Likewise, this article does not attempt to merely rehash all of the ethical and political perspectives on healthcare. In fact, the section on "birth and death" contains a wide variety of philosophical sentiments that are not overly expressed anywhere else on Wikipedia. FitzColinGerald (talk) 21:44, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

This article needs drastic changing to reflect that healthcare exists outside the United States. Restepc (talk) 14:58, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I agree completely, but I believe that your qualms have already been echoed. All we need now is for someone to heed these calls for reform and revision. Someone with expertise in healthcare philosophy outside the U.S. would be wholly welcomed here. FitzColinGerald (talk) 21:39, 15 April 2008 (UTC)