Question

Suppose you are working in a national firm that aimed to enhance the quality of health for poor people. You have two main proposals ; One suggests to raise taxes on rich people and gives more money to the poor. The other suggests to raise taxes on the rich and provides more health care, free to patients, through the network of the national health service. Which proposal do you think is more likely to meet economic objectives? Why?

Answer 1

Enhancing Quality of Health to Poor People
Enhancing the quality of health of poor people can happen on through governmental or institutional intervention in the health sector. To consider the distribution of income to the whole population, government should concentrate in collecting tax from the rich in a progressive way of taxation. The collected tax should be efficiently distributed to the people in a way they could find benefits and advantages from that. Re-distributing the tax amount directly to the poor people may not help them to overcome the health problems and facilities they face. Government could help them achieving a better health atmosphere by providing the necessary health infrastructure and facilities that a group deserves. Direct funding may not help them achieving the health stableness because of the lack of infrastructure facilities they can approach. Also, the amount directly provided to them may not be enough to seek health assistance from the private sector. So, it is always better to assist them directly by providing them free health assistance through primary and modern health facilities.
Objective calls to tackle the health facilities that the poor people face, no to fund them.
Lack of proper infrastructure may not help to assist their health measures with only the provided fund.
Inability of the people to approach private entities may be high without governmental or public care facilities even if they are funded of that.
So, it is always better to adopt the measures that can help the objective. Here, rather than funding the people, providing them facilities can only tackle the problems of health and related issues of the poor people.