Justice in health care

Journal of Value Inquiry 40 (2-3):371-384 (2006)
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In this discussion, we will consider arguments against the view that one person is entitled to medical care at the expense of another person, just because the one person might be able to extend it to the other. We all accept the view that we are entitled to nonviolence from each other, which in the medical case is roughly that we are entitled to other people not making us sick, at least insofar as this is something they can readily avoid. But how are we also entitled to their help in making us well when we are sick? Few of us think that we are entitled to other people's new cars, or half of their incomes for our general use. Why, then, are we entitled to a hefty fraction of that income to pay our medical bills?

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Collapsing goods in medicine and the value of innovation.Thomas Magnell - 2006 - Journal of Value Inquiry 40 (2-3):155-168.

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