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| The charter of fundamental rights by the European Commission states ‘Everyone has the right to acces preventive health care and the right I benefit from medical treatemnt’ |
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It is my honour to greet my distinguished colleagues, Mr. chairman or (Madame chair), Ladies and Gentlemen,
Today I will be arguing against the motion ‘Research and health care funding should be distributed in a population dependent manner even for rare diseases.’ |
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Before I present my arguments, I will contend the definition of this debate provided by the affirmative
The affirmative has defined the motion as ___________________, however, we reject/ amend.
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In Europe, a rare disease is defined as a disease that is life threatening or chronically debilitating affecting no more than 1 in 2000 people |
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- Allocations of research and healthcare funds based solely on population does not account for disparities among individuals, notably those suffering from a rare disease.
- Although this attempts to maximise population health overall, this strategy allies with ideas of bio-politics – live and let die. Let die those who’re physically and/or genetically vulnerable, discriminated by a system put in place to protect them.
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Therefore, this house believes that populations need to be contextualised for distribution of funding to provide an intersectional public health system. |
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