Healthcare as a Right or Privilege
Description
Is healthcare a right or a privilege? Consider the political implications of these different views and the ways that regulation relates to this question.
Regulation might help ensure the right to healthcare but might also inhibit it.
Free competition, on the other hand, might support the stance that healthcare is a privilege rather than a right. What are the economic and political ramifications if healthcare is a right or a privilege? For this Discussion, review the media “Multi-Media PowerPoint Macroeconomics and Public Health,”and the Learning Resources.
Then, consider whether healthcare is a right or a privilege, and explain why. Next, select one macroeconomic principle that may be interpreted differently based on your view of whether healthcare is a right or a privilege.
With these thoughts in mind:
Post your position on whether healthcare is a right or a privilege. Justify your position.
Then, describe one macroeconomic principle and explain how you would interpret it differently based on your view on whether healthcare is a right or a privilege.
Comments
I believe healthcare “should be a right”. However, it appears to be more of a privilege. Assuming the resources support healthcare being a “right” then proceed in that direction.
If not, then discuss healthcare “being a privilege” and justify the position.
Resources
Getzen, T. E. (2013). Health economics and financing (5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.
• Chapter 4.8, “History of Health Insurance”
• Chapter 13, “Macroeconomics of Medical Care”
Sensenig, A. L. (2007). Refining Estimates of Public Health Spending as Measured in National Health Expenditures Accounts: The United States Experience. Journal of Public Health Management & Practice, 13(2), 103–114.
Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2012). Multi-media PowerPoint: Macroeconomics and public health. Baltimore, MD: Author.
