Showing posts with label healthcare and insurance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthcare and insurance. Show all posts

Monday, July 11, 2016

Identity Politics and Abortion Argument

Is this post, on the idea of a universal positive right to an abortion, an example of or does it contain any instances/examples of "identity politics"?  In the good sense of the term as used by those who profess its value?

At least in style it seems to me not; maybe in some sense about the content, since it directly concerns only part of the population, it is.  But so if it does count as identity politics for its content--despite or without regard to its style--then I only have a problem with the style of identity politics.

Abortion Regulation: From Illegal to Legal... to Universal?

I've just come to the conclusion that universal access to abortion is a legal political imperative. 
If we base our right to abortion on the right to bodily-autonomy, then abortion should be just as free and universally accessible as law enforcement and judicial services. 

Could this be right?  
Is the logic?  Should we reexamine the premise?

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Conservative Healthcare and Insurance Ideas?

Greg Sargent reports on the prospects of further reform to insurance and healthcare policy, now that the full range of benefits of the Affordable Care Act have kicked in and more and more people start to use them, making outright appeal more and more difficult.

According to Kaiser Family Foundation Larry Levitt, one possibility for a policy change both sides could embrace, assuming that "Republicans do get to a point where crippling or eliminating the law is not the only acceptable outcome," is "allowing insurance sales across state lines... if the law's uniform federal minimum coverage standards are kept".

This would indeed be a great improvement to the law, but let's not pretend that it's a newly suggested proposal that liberal proponents of the law haven't supported in the past, or that it's a conservative idea that liberals would only accept for a trade.