Can National Health Insurance Solve the Crisis in Health Care?

Irvine, William B.

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“…Yet a public commitment to pay "whatever is needed" for life-saving healthcare will surely drive costs up by increasing the rigidity of an already inelastic demand. 11 The same point can be put conversely, to parallel the talmudic statement. Cosiderations of tikkun 'olam [the proper ordering of social affairs] seem to require a cap on healthcare spending, "so that they should not come and take more and more.…”

Section: Modern Medicine and Escalating Financial Demandsmentioning

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A Jewish Perspective on Access to Healthcare

Zohar

1998

Camb Q Healthc Ethics

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Can anyone doubt that the Jewish tradition mandates universal access to healthcare? In a comprehensive and illuminating discussion, A.L. Mackler seems to have already said all that needs to be said. After aptly analyzing the principles of the traditional institutions and norms relating to tzedakah (social justice, or welfare), Mackler proceeded to apply these traditions to the context of healthcare, concluding thatSociety has the responsibility to ensure that needed medical care is provided to those who would otherwise be unable to receive it... Medical care for potentially life-threatening conditions justifies extraordinary expenditures, and represents an urgent obligation of society. (p. 150)

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Section: Modern Medicine and Escalating Financial Demandsmentioning

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A Jewish Perspective on Access to Healthcare

Zohar

1998

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A Critique of the Innovation Argument Against a National Health Program

Rajczi

2007

Bioethics

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President Bush and his Council of Economic Advisors have claimed that the US shouldn't adopt a national health program because doing so would slow innovation in health care. Some have attacked this argument by challenging its moral claim that innovativeness is a good ground for choosing between health care systems. This reply is misguided. If we want to refute the argument from innovation, we have to undercut the premise that seems least controversial--the premise that our current system produces more innovation than a national health program would. I argue that this premise is false. The argument requires clarifying the concept 'national health program' and examining various theories of human well-being.

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Can National Health Insurance Solve the Crisis in Health Care?

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A Jewish Perspective on Access to Healthcare

A Jewish Perspective on Access to Healthcare

A Critique of the Innovation Argument Against a National Health Program

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