scholarly journals Paralyzed by Prices: An Analysis of Price Theory within the Context of Health Care

2019 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Babcock
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Price Formation ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Price Mechanism ◽  
Price Theory ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Economics Of Health

This article examines the structure of pricing within health care. The price mechanism within health care does not function as it does in other sectors of the economy. The author examines the price theories of capitalism, socialism, and solidarism to illuminate the purpose of prices relevant to health care. Drawing points from each system, the author argues in favor of a solidarist approach to prices relying on principles set forth in Catholic social teaching, with the caveat that the capitalist natural price must first be determined. The unique features of healthcare pricing and prioritization indicate that moral principles must guide the economics of health care, not merely supply and demand. Summary: This article discusses the problems with creating useful prices in health care. It examines the price theories of capitalism, socialism, and solidarism to see which would be most useful for health care price formation.

Traveling Light: Pilgrim Law and the Nexus between Law, Politics and Catholic Social Teaching

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 445-479
Author(s):  
Amelia J. Uelmen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Embryonic Stem ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Potential Threat ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Tax Exempt

Coming out of a church whose marks of identity include unity, holiness, and universality, it is ironic—and painful—that the “Catholic vote” has become a “metaphor” for polarization in United States culture and politics. As one reporter described the scene in the weeks before the 2004 presidential election: Some rail against their own bishops, while others cheer what they see as a long-awaited stand of conscience. The tension seemed to reach a peak yesterday, when the Vatican felt compelled to publicly dismiss the claims of a Catholic lawyer who said he had Vatican support to seek [Senator] Kerry's excommunication.Tensions have also manifested themselves in the variety of Catholic “voter's guides.” Some list a limited number of “non-negotiable” issues—particular actions that are identified in Catholic moral theology as “intrinsic evil” and suggest that candidates be evaluated according to their stand on these particular issues. For example, the Catholic Answers Voter's Guide for Serious Catholics, first distributed prior to the 2004 election, named “five non-negotiables”: abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem-cell research, human cloning and homosexual marriage. As these moral principles “do not admit of exception or compromise,” the Guide reasoned that political consequences should be clear: “You should avoid to the greatest extent possible voting for candidates who endorse or promote intrinsically evil policies.”In the interim between the 2004 and 2006 elections, a few organizations congealed to formulate competing guides. Others rallied around Faithful Citizenship, the United States Bishop's long-standing official commentary on the nexus between the principles of Catholic social teaching and political participation. Others directly challenged the Catholic Answers guide as a distortion of Catholic social teaching and argued that its partisan activities were a potential threat to the Roman Catholic Church's tax-exempt status.

scholarly journals SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ETHICS ACCORDING TO THE POLISH PRIEST JÓZEF MAJKA

10.23856/3408 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 68-73
Author(s):  
Jan Mazur ◽  
Władysław Majkowski ◽  
Hameni Blaise
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Political Ethics ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gospel Message

The presented text is an attempt to answer the question: how was understood the social and political ethics by the Priest Professor Józef Majka (1918-1993) - one of the leading minds of Catholic social teaching in Poland? It is, of course, about capturing the specificity of this understanding, comparing it with the perspectives of other outstanding authors. Views of Priest Majka on this subject were included mainly in His book: Social and Political Ethics (1993). In His opinion, this kind of ethics is not only a group of philosophical considerations, but a real attempt to show Catholic social and political ethics. He wrote: "We do not think that it would be possible at all to develop a sensible system of social ethics, especially political, without referring to Christian principles and focusing on the message of the ultimate goal of a man in the Gospel message" (Majka, 1993:12). It seems that this unambiguous reference to the values and principles of the Gospel, recognizing them as necessary in the construction of a sensible system of social and political ethics allows us to consider His concept as original, thoroughly Christian, marked by a testimony of faith and penetrated by intellectual depth. It can be stated  that the social ethics in the sense of Father Majka is not an ideology, but an integral part of Catholic social science, situating above all in the area of  philosophy and theology, where it finds the necessary premises for moral principles and norms.

Ewolucja katolickiej nauki społecznej, ale jaka?

1970 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-240
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Ślipko
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
John Xxiii ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Pope John Xxiii

The author of the article argues against some of Stanisław Pyszka's views presented in the article Ewolucja katolickiej nauki społecznej [Evolution of the Catholic social teaching], published in: „Forum Philosophicum", 8: 2003. T. Ślipko reproaches S. Pyszka for considering the views on social problems expressed in the encyclical letter „Kerum novarum" „dogmatic", as influenced in part by the Thomistic philosophy. Pyszka opposes them to a pastoral perspective of the encyclical letters written by Pope John XXIII, Paul VI and John Paul II. Ślipko states that Catholic social teaching develops, taking into consideration historical circumstances in which human social groups are placed, but the moral principles are unchanged.

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