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HEALTH IS A BASIC HUMAN NEED AND FREE ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE IS A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT
On the surface this is my medical background speaking, still, on another level this is me speaking, and it is what made me go into medicine in the first place all those years ago.
There couldn`t be more hype about the subject already. Now that the health care reform bill has passed with great fanfare, it has become an issue of acceptance and trust in the government. And still the bill is only the beginning to get everyone covered and there are still a number of loopholes. The general idea though is to get everyone to contribute to help to pay for the ones in need. I like to think of this system as a pyramid, with the large number of healthy people forming the broad base of support, and a smaller number of sick and needy people coming out on the top. In a way the sickest of the lot is king.
When considering an object that would create hype about health care, I thought that this aspect of coming together in order to help those in need would be best demonstrated in a sculptural object to which every person could contribute, rather than every individual wearing a badge of support. If, as part of a campaign to elicit mass support of health care reform, every person gets to donate one part of the pyramidal sculpture together with a financial contribution, it could quickly become a towering structure that could awe the old pharaohs.
