PO101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Universal Health Care, Making Money, Joseph Schumpeter
10 Oct 2020
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PO101 – Lecture 2
Concept and material update
• - Normative analysis; empirical analysis, semantic analysis
• - Views of plato, aristotle, hobbes and Machiavelli on human nature
What is the state?
• - Soverent; highest form of power in a country
• - Authority; justified or legitimate power. People believe its right/appropriate
• - Monopoly on the use of coercion and force
• - Concept of state linked to sovereignty. There is no higher form of power in a country.
• - The state has a monopoly to use force within the territory
Functions
• - Protection
• - An economic framework (e.g monetary system )
• - Infrastructure
• - Political framework
• - Adjudicates disputes (e.g devorce)
• - Sets up a frame work (healthcare)
o - Canada only has universal healthcare in terms of physician care and hospital
care. Why?
o - Political ideology of the citizens.
o - Everyone agrees to universal healthcare BUT not universal pharmacare
Why doesn't the US have universal healthcare?
• - Some people in the US believe the quality of care will decrease
• - People don't want to pay higher taxes
• - Healthcare may not be valued as high
• - Health care is up to the individual
• - People believe healthcare should be privatized
Why is there privatized healthcare?
• - Its socialism
• - The healthcare industry is making money (capitalism)
A typology of the State
- As you move across the scale intervention gets “stronger”
Night-watchman state
- Keeps basic security of citizens (e.g no ones breaking into places)
Document Summary
Views of plato, aristotle, hobbes and machiavelli on human nature. Soverent; highest form of power in a country. Monopoly on the use of coercion and force. There is no higher form of power in a country. The state has a monopoly to use force within the territory. An economic framework (e. g monetary system ) Canada only has universal healthcare in terms of physician care and hospital care. Everyone agrees to universal healthcare but not universal pharmacare. Some people in the us believe the quality of care will decrease. People don"t want to pay higher taxes. Healthcare may not be valued as high. Health care is up to the individual. The healthcare industry is making money (capitalism) As you move across the scale intervention gets stronger . Keeps basic security of citizens (e. g no ones breaking into places) No one agrees on the exact definition.
