Genetics and the Moral Mission of Health Insurance

Hastings Center Report 22 (6):12-17 (1992)
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Deciding whether genetic differences among individuals are morally relevant to health insurance requires us to ask, What kind of good is health care? and, What principles should govern its distribution? There are good reasons to doubt that “actuarial fairness” is an adequate description of genuine fairness in health insurance.

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