1. Health Care Reform By: Ronald F. White, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy
College of Mount St. Joseph

2. The Ideal Health Care System
Universal access to high quality health care at a reasonable cost.
Universality-
High Quality Health Care
Reasonable Cost

3. The Ideal Health Care System
Rationing Health Care in the Real World
Free Market Distribution
Social Distribution
Marxism-Socialized Medicine (European)
Welfare Liberalism-Medicare, Medicaid
Mixed System (U.S.
Single-Payer System (Canada)
Problems in the United States
Hippocratic Ideals v. Corporate Ideals
Quality of Care
Comprehensiveness v. Basic Health Care
(medical mistakes) v. Malpractice Insurance
Expense
Health Care is Economic (buyers and Sellers)
Artificial Monopoly- licensure (credentialism), Patents (pharmaceuticals and technology)
Moral Hazard-price insensitivity
Access to Health Care
Health Care through Employment
Insurance Tradition (pre-existing conditions, state regulations etc.)
Pharmaceuticals-