PHIL 2408 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Joseph Heath, Venn Diagram, Artificial Heart
17 Dec 2019
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Joseph heath, health care as a commodity : ronald dworkin, justice and the high cost of health , alexander cappelin and ole norheim, responsibility in health care . Health care as a commodity: joseph heath: certain goods are so closely tied to human dignity- its wrong to assign them a price. But we buy and sell lots of things closely related to the integrity of a person: monetary incentives crowd out moral ones. Health care is very hard to plan and budget for, while food and clothes are not. And it is efficiency that provides the rationale for public insurance: cheaper to just cover. It"s the uncertainty attached to health care that necessitates insurance everyone to universal baseline. Two-tiered profit systems shouldn"t be prevented to level down but only to protect the integrity of the public system. Private insurance companies spend extra 25 cents on every dollar investigating members (private is way more expensive than public)
