In search of equity : health needs and the health care system
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書誌事項
In search of equity : health needs and the health care system
(The Hastings Center series in ethics)
Plenum Press, c1983
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
I Several years ago, when the Carter administration announced that it would support congressional action to end the public fund- ing of abortions, the President was asked at a press conference whether he thought that such a policy was unfair; he responded, "Life is unfair." His remarks provoked a storm of controversy. For other than those who, for principled reasons, opposed abor- tion on any grounds, it seemed that the President's comments were cruel, violating what was thought to be an American com- mitment to providing equal access to health services to all citi- zens, regardless of their capacity to pay. Those sentiments had, in fact, been reflected in public opinion polls that had, for at least three decades, indicated that Americans supported the propo- sition that the government should guarantee health care to all. Ultimately, those beliefs had been translated into the oft-ex- 1 pressed political demand for a one-class system of health care. This commitment to equality is rather remarkable. American society evidences a striking willingness to tolerate vast inequal- ities with regard to income and wealth.
While it guarantees ed- ucation to all children, there is not even a pretense that the children of the wealthy and the children of the poor ought to get precisely the same kind of schooling. While some commitment 'Hazel Erskine. "The Polls: Health Insurance," Public Opinion Quarterly, XXXIX (Spring, 1975), 128-143.
目次
1 Health Care Needs and Distributive Justice.- 2 For and Against Equal Access to Health Care.- 3 Jail and Prison Health Care Standards: A Determination of Need Without Reference to Want or Desire.- 4 How Should Values Count in the Allocation of New Technologies in Health Care?.- 5 The Neoconservative Health Strategy: Vouchers and the Rhetoric of Equity.- 6 Operationalizing Respect for Persons: A Qualitative Aspect of the Right to Health Care.- 7 Needs, Wants, Demands, and Interests: Their Interaction in Medical Practice and Health Policy.- 8 Physicians' Refusals of Patient Demands: An Application of Medical Discernment.- Appendix A.
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