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What are the economic principles surrounding equal access healthcare coverage?

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This solution discusses the economic principles surrounding equal access healthcare coverage. Supplemented with an artilce on the right to healthcare.

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1. What are the economic principles surrounding equal access healthcare coverage?

Libertarian (see attached article) and soft libertarian proponents (Epstein- see below) argue that health care coverage is a privilege not a right. For example, R. A. Epstein, in Mortal Peril: Our Inalienable Right to Health Care, uses a soft libertarian approach to the issue of a right to equal health care by appealing to economic principles. In his view, the economic principles are:

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