PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Special Rights, Distributive Justice, Managed Care
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Phlb09 lecture 19: chapter 11 health care resources. Not concerned with the rightness/wrongness of act. Rather it is concerned with the treatment of equals. Cost (not literally free to us, its funded somehow) Efficacy (the more efficacy, the higher the cost) Freedom of choice (should people have the freedom of choice to choose with health care best suits them) High spending (however there are still high mortality rates) Low life expectancy (despite the high spending on health care) Technology advances (this expands the efficacy of health resources, but they are inert unless you have enough people to put them into action) Foregoing necessary tests (test itself may be costly, and difficult to administer, could result to disregarding this test) E. g. rights, services, income, service, taxes: libertarian: (not the system we have in can. ) (negative rights), no taxation. Government protects pursuit of interest without coercion, fraud. Government has no obligation to adjust for the distribution of health care.
