What is the definition of health?  Is it simply an absence of sickness or is it more than that?  In saying whether or not people are entitled to good health care, everyone must have a consistent understanding of the term.  Should the true definition of health care refer to preventative medicine or crisis management? 

I believe that health care should encompass all aspects of keeping a person in a state of health.  Minimally, it is a form of prevention of sickness and a conscious effort to maintain a healthy lifestyle.  

As Dov Chernichovski explains, 

"It is increasingly clear that health problems in modern industrialized societies can no longer be solved solely through medical care, but rather by a combination of medical care and changes in lifestyle and environment"

 Why is it important to define everything?  

If a common ground is not clearly established, miscommunications arise.  People with the same opinion may end up in a useless argument, or people with differing opinions may seem to agree although they may actually differ in opinion.

 A real-life example of how the inability to define terms may lead to a serious problem is shown by the fact that managed care companies denied claims for emergency health services, leaving hospitals to incur great debts for their services.  These debts could have been prevented.  According to Leonard Holmes's article entitled Managed Care Evades Laws That Protect Patients, "The problem arises from a central issue: how to define a medical emergency."  Supposedly, the managed care organizations did not consider such claims to fall under the category of an emergency.  Such inconsistencies and misunderstandings led to debts and accusations that could have been avoided.