Respond to the following criticism using the criteria below:
Criticism:
Funding for health care has become a standard practice by many governments. Jennifer Jonh-Yar Bukrs has raised concerns about the abuse of health care opportunities by some. Her criticism includes:
Social returns to health care are below private returns and likens the scenario to that of the Tragedy of the Commons discussed in module 4.
Those who prefer to put their tax dollars to other uses (i.e. other than funding of health care) are adversely impacted or prohibited from acquiring entitlements and social welfare suffers; the allocation of tax revenue to health care is another form of Expropriation/Eminent domain (discussed in module 5) for which there is no just compensation.
Jennifer Jonh-Yar Bukrs is now an advocate of privatization of health care.
Response Criteria (items that must be included in your response):
- Provide a legal perspective on how privatization of health care may be possible.
- Analyze Jennifer Jonh-Yar Bukrs' critique of health care funding and the notion of privatization of health care.
Your analysis should also include:
- An examination of the right of an individual to health care
- The impact health care funding can have on social welfare
- An examination of equity in relation to health care
- A criterion for determining efficiency
- The Neoclassical view v. real world
- A Pigovian v. Coasean perspective
- Reference to the health care debate in at least one country
- A conclusive position on the type of health care system you believe is appropriate given your analysis of Jennifer Jonh-Yar Bukrs' critique.