Question

The Affordable Care Act requires that all Americans have health insurance by March of 2014. Utilize your recently acquired knowledge of this new health care policy to answer the questions. :

1. Define individualism and social justice in your own words and include the following:

1. Discuss how individualism applies to being socially responsible.
2. Describe social justice with the application of a mandatory requirement for health insurance.

2. Within the context of your knowledge on social justice, discuss how the Affordable Care Act provides for social justice. Please support your argument with creditable professional sources.

Answer 1

Answer 1-

Individualism refers to being independent, having freedom to think and act on their own without relying on any other person.

Social Justice refers to equality in distribution of privileges to each member of the society.

1. Individualism applies to being socially responsible in a way that every individual must behave in ethical manner and tries to fulfill their own duties towards the society. If every individual incorporates social values in their day to day actions and tries to work for welfare of society on their own without depending upon others, they can become social responsible on their own. If every individual think for the society and performs the action which are not harmful to the society as whole then they can become socially responsible.
2. Social justice applies to mandatory requirement of health insurance for all. Social justice means providing equal health care opportunities to all the people without any bias. Health insurance must be provided to each member of the society to save them from costs incurred on any uncertain life accidents. As poor people generally don’t take insurance due to lack of money, in such cases in order to ensure social justice government should take initiative to provide them health insurance.

Answer 2 –

Affordable act is created to promote for social justice by providing health insurance to all the people who are uninsured because of poverty. As per this Act full amount of insurance policy will be paid by the government for the people who cannot afford to buy health insurance policy. This Act provides various other benefits to the consumers by providing them knowledge and awareness about the insurance plans and policies. Thus, affordable act by providing health insurance to all the uninsured adults provides for social justice.

Source – Wikipedia