Health care mandate a volunteer's dilemma

Health care mandate a volunteer's dilemma
- April 2, 2012
- Andrew Scauzillo, senior business economics major, and Jean-Paul Carvalho (pictured), economics assistant professor, are quoted in the Pasadena Star-News March 30, 2012
From the Pasadena Star-News:
MY wife and my 20-year-old son were transfixed to the TV as I walked in the door
Wednesday night. The evening news was quoting a Supreme Court justice. He was responding
to arguments by the U.S. government's executive and legislative branches why the Affordable
Care Act is constitutional.... My youngest, Andy, 20, a junior studying business in
college, quoted from his macro-economics lecturer, answering: "A public good is non-rivaled
and non-exclusive." It's very good and it's for everybody, in other words. But Andy
went on. "This is more about the volunteer's dilemma," which assumes it costs money
to be the volunteer. "If enough people volunteer, than everybody gets the public good.
It is only worth it if the benefit gain outweighs the cost," he said, giving credit
to his professor at University of California, Irvine, J.T. Carvalho.
For the full story, please visit http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/opinions/ci_20285775/steve-scauzillo-hea....
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