The Price Ain’t Right
When one person’s consumption doesn’t reduce availability for others, but it’s difficult to exclude non-payers, it’s called this.
What is a public good?
This federally funded program provides health insurance for seniors and some disabled individuals—no Spotify subscription required.
What is Medicare?
This describes the factors that lead to the rise of Elon Musk and the effects of his wrecking ball decision-making style.
What is Meta Politics?
Detroit’s financial crisis led to this extreme form of state intervention, where an appointed official took control of city finances and services, ultimately leading to the city’s 2013 bankruptcy.
What is municipal receivership?
Unlike other universal healthcare systems, this country’s government has relied heavily on employer-based insurance, leading to significant disparities between urban and rural healthcare access.
What is China?
This happens when people overuse shared resources like fisheries or grazing lands, leading to depletion.
What is the tragedy of the commons?
The U.S. is the only high-income nation without this, often leading to GoFundMe campaigns for medical bills.
What is universal healthcare?
House Republicans proposed a spending bill with nearly $1tn in cuts to this program.
What is Medicaid?
While Detroit struggles with declining tax revenue and underfunded services, wealthier suburbs like Novi and Birmingham benefit from higher property values and better-funded schools, illustrating this form of geographic inequality.
What is spatial inequality?
This country’s public healthcare system is funded entirely through general taxation, with no dedicated payroll tax or social insurance contributions.
What is England?
Carbon emissions are an example of this, where costs spill over onto people not involved in the original transaction.
What is a negative externality?
In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that states could opt out of this part of the ACA, leaving millions without coverage.
What is Medicaid expansion?
With a CDC blockage on public communication, this emerges with regard to knowledge between health officials and the public.
What is information asymmetry.
With over 200 municipal governments operating independently in Metro Detroit, efforts to coordinate regional services like public transit and economic development are often obstructed by this phenomenon.
What is metropolitan fragmentation?
Unlike most universal healthcare systems, this country’s public hospitals operate under a global budget system rather than fee-for-service reimbursement, meaning they receive a fixed amount of funding rather than billing per procedure.
What is Canada?
A situation where one company dominates an industry often due to high fixed costs, limiting competition and raising prices.
What is a natural monopoly?
Employer-sponsored health insurance became common in the U.S. after this major event, due to wage controls.
What is World War II?
The elimination of the Department of Education and their grant programs will worsen this.
What is fiscal inequality?
A policy debate states, "Public transit should be free for all residents, regardless of income." This type of statement, which is based on values rather than empirical data, is known as what?
What is a normative statement?
This country’s public healthcare system is constitutionally guaranteed as a universal right, but due to funding limitations, wealthier citizens frequently opt for private insurance and facilities.
What is Brazil?
The government imposes taxes on cigarettes and sugary drinks to discourage unhealthy behavior. These are called what?
What is a sin tax?
The U.S. spends more on healthcare than other wealthy nations but has worse outcomes in these two key areas.
What are life expectancy and infant mortality?
Because it lacks this factor, Timothee Chalamet lack of an Golden Globe can not be solved by the White House.
What is Policy?
This post-World War II federal policy aimed to "revitalize" cities but resulted in the displacement of Black communities in Detroit’s Black Bottom and Paradise Valley neighborhoods.
What is urban renewal?
This country’s healthcare system offers dental care coverage for individuals up to age 23, a benefit not commonly found in other universal healthcare models.
What is Sweden?