instituting and maintaining such a system.
             "One widely accepted way of justifying universal access to health care is to argue that access to health care is necessary to ensure health, which is necessary to provide equality of opportunity" (Sreenivasan, 2007, p. 21). Many experts are touting this 'equality of opportunity' that would seem to be necessary for longer and healthier lives for all citizens, but that may not necessarily be the case.
             One study recently reported that; "literature shows that universal coverage medical systems do not eliminate the genetic association found between socioeconomic status (SES) and health--that the richer you are, the longer and healthier your life will be" (Daniels, 2007, p. 3). This research leads to the question; if, what many people have seen as the advantages of access to healthcare are not the real advantages, would it be feasible to even initiate such a major overhaul of the system? Daniels concluded that "being in equally poor health, however, is not the goal of justice; rather, promoting normal functioning equitably is, indeed, the ultimate goal of people concerned with health" (p. 3)
             Studying Great Britain's healthcare system would engender a number of observations that might be helpful in additional efforts to determine whether such a question can be honestly answered. Great Britain has maintained a longstanding health care system, having implemented the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948. To no one's surprise, the experiment w
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