PHL 325M Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Emergency Medical Treatment And Active Labor Act, Moral Hazard

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHL 325M
• Professor: L E O N, J E F F R E Y C

Document Summary

Home allowed to burn during fire because of unpaid fees. Realistic, social right to access healthcare in this society. Libertarian: liberal western tradition we should maximize individual liberty. We want criticism and critical thinking in philosophy and the communitarian is welcome to this. Moral hazard in insurance by buying too much. No one is proposing to repeal emergency treatment act and it"s not going anywhere. No free riding, efficiency leads to individual mandate. Requiring people to buy health care has to be available and affordable. Can"t justifiably ask someone to spend their money for subsidies. Libertarian would want us to repeal emtala 1989. Inequality itself is related to poor health. This is bad for everyone in the middle and the bottom. There"s no safety net to help people out.