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RE: Sect. 1 Week 14 DQ 12: Justice and access to health care
Does society have aresponsibility to provide access to health care to those who lackit?
I feel my positionlies somewhere between Utilitarian and Communitarian. The purposeof medicine is to bring the greatest good for the greatest numberof people. And if we highlight the community and not any oneindividual, it sounds more fair, \"the city of Anchorage has a rightto accessible health care.\" Morally, no one should agree withstatements like \"the city of Anchorage, minus the Jews, has a rightto accessible health care,\" so I feel singling out a particulargroup (homeless, unemployed, drunkards, etc.) is used to highlightdissatisfaction with a particular group and distract from the factthat our current system fails even those who can afford to pay.
Taking acommunitarian/utilitarian view seems to be the most beneficial. Ifeveryone has access to preventative health care, then the overallcost on society will be lessened, see the article on super-users.Our system is set up in a way that the most expensive care is theonly one available. A $200 office visit and $10 prescription forblood thinners is way more cost effective than a $10,000 ER andhospital stay for a stroke. Proactive treatment should be preferredto reactive treatment. Justice in this case can be done for boththe individual needing the treatment, and to taxpayers, in the formof optimizing the money they put into the system.
