Why USA healthcare is not Evil - Classes

What’s Not to Like About
Universal Health Care
MARK GREENE
Department of Philosophy
University of Delaware
[email protected]
www.vole.org
Why USA healthcare
is not Evil
What’s not to like? Part I
What is universal health care?
I’m not stopping you
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What is universal health care?
• Obama ’08
– Access to
affordable
insurance
Access to affordable insurance
Sickest
buy
Healthiest
run away
Increase
premium
Increase
payouts
What is universal health care?
• Obama ’09
– Required
insurance
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101 Things to do with the
money you save on insurance
Explicit pars prima…
Sequitur pars secunda.
What’s not to like:
Why USA healthcare
is insane
What’s not to like? Part II
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Are you people crazy?
• Healthcare costs
– $8,713 each
– Holy cow!
• Results
– $2.8 trillion & all I
got was millions
uninsured & a
malpractice suit.
2013 figures: OECD (2015). * = Calculated
Health Expenditure Per Capita for 2011
2013 expenditures
• Per capita $ @ PPP
– USA
$8,713
– Canada $4,351
– UK
• % of GDP
– USA
$3,235
16.4%
– Canada 10.2%
– UK
8.9%
2013 figures: OECD (2015)
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Myth Busters I:
“But you pay far higher taxes”
• % of total expenditures
– USA
48.2%
– Canada
70.6%
– UK
83.3%
• % of GDP *
– USA
– Canada
– UK
• Per
–
–
–
Public expenditures, 2013
7.9%
7.2%
7.4%
capita (USD @PPP)
USA
$4,197
Canada
$3,074
UK
$2,802
2013 figures: OECD (2015). * = Calculated
Health Expenditure Per Capita
But great results, no?
More or less… what?
more
U.S. hospitals
Al-Qaeda
Yay! We’re
number one!
I’m so excited I
forgot if you
already had
your morphine
or less
firearms
drunk drivers
People killed in USA
in September, 2001
kittens
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So, What’s Not to Like?
• Screaming liberal
• Frothing libertarian
– Millions uninsured
– Higher taxes than
those pinko Brits
– Millions more
underinsured
– Entrepreneurship
killing tax
distortions of group
insurance
– Mediocre results
– Your insurance company
– $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Mark Greene
[email protected]
Philosophy
La
philosophie
gives
donne
the means
moyento
de parler
speak
with
vraisemblement
apparent authority
de
toutes
on
all matters,
choses, et
and
se to
faire
make
admireradmired
oneself
des moins
bysavants;
the less que
la jurisprudence,
learned;
while law,
la medicine
médicine et
les autres
and
the other
sciences
sciences
apportent
bring
des honneurs
honor
and riches
et des
upon
richesses
their à
ceux qui les cultivent.
practitioners.
– Rene Descartes, Discourse
Discours de
onlaMethod
méthode
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