Agreed PolicyHealthcare
Catholic Medical Ethics
Public healthcare should respect Catholic medical ethics, and Catholic hospitals should be free to maintain their own ethical standards.
Agreed Policy
Universal Healthcare Access
Universal access to essential and medically necessary care, with safeguards against overuse and waste.
Position
Restore Europe supports universal access to essential and medically necessary healthcare, while permitting safeguards against overuse and waste.
Policy
- Emergency care available to everyone.
- Primary care, essential medicines, maternity care and treatment of serious illness accessible.
- Modest co-payments may apply to non-essential or low-priority services.
- Children, low-income households, serious chronic illness and emergencies may be exempt from co-payments.
- General practitioners may serve as gatekeepers before specialist care where medically appropriate.
- Prevention, rehabilitation and palliative care should receive strong support.
- Fraud, unnecessary procedures and over-prescription actively controlled.
Principle
Necessary care should not be denied because a person is poor, but healthcare resources are finite and should be used responsibly.
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Related positions
- Agreed PolicyConstitutional, Religious and Moral Order
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Restore Europe opposes direct euthanasia and assisted suicide, supports palliative care, and allows the refusal of extraordinary or disproportionate treatment.
- Agreed PolicyFamily, Demography and Social Order
Welfare and Social Assistance
A safety net directed primarily at citizens, families and those genuinely unable to support themselves, expressing solidarity without becoming permanent avoidable dependency.
- Agreed PolicyConstitutional, Religious and Moral Order
Abortion
Restore Europe holds that human life must be protected from conception, and that elective direct abortion should be prohibited.
Every question in this catalogue carries a position. Entries marked Derived follow the direction of the manifesto without their implementation being fixed, and several name the legal or treaty change they would require. Positions are revised as the movement decides; the version and date above say which text you are reading.