PHLB09H3 Lecture 20: Health Care Resources
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Debate on policies; how much money gets allocated to healthcare and the. Utility: how can we benefit the most people and do the least harm. Ideally: everyone would get all the healthcare they need. But there are limits to how much we can provide for everyone: costs, finite resources. Only so many beds: considerations regarding efficiency (some drugs will help more people than others) No universal health care: freedom of choice of patients (autonomy) Us health care crisis (not tested on us but be familiar with terms) Consequences: with: risk of death is 25% higher for the uninsured. In the past: ppl got health coverage as a result of employment. Medicare: over 65/ those w permanent disabilities. Medicaid: coverage for those under 65, in the low income brackets, some disabled people (cid:523)varies state to state, doesn(cid:495)t cover everyone below the.
