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| What makes a just healthcare system? | | Author(s) | Solomon R Benatar |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 313, no 7072, 21-28 December 1996 |
| Pages | pp 1567-1568 |
| Keywords | Health services ; Social ethics ; Interpretation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Interest in universal access to healthcare in the United States at the start of the Clinton era was short lived at a time of resource constraints, and was soon eclipsed by a renewed thrust towards managed care. The author, a South African, writes in support of Allen Buchanan, a prominent American bioethicist, who argues that privatisation offers less choice and is a less just system. These are the elements required for Buchanan's just healthcare system: universal access; access to an 'adequate level' of care; access without excessive burdens; fair distribution of the financial costs of ensuring universal access; fair distribution of the burdens of rationing care; capacity for improvement toward a more just system; education and training of appropriate numbers and types of healthcare providers; effective pursuit of high quality biomedical research; and cost effective use of results of biomedical research. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970228011 A |
| Classmark | L: TQ: 4CC: 7T * |
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