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KMID : 1011120220160010269
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Bioethics Policy Studies
2022 Volume.16 No. 1 p.269 ~ p.295
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Considering Non-health Factors in Our Moral Judgments on Allocation of Health Care
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Lee Kyung-Do
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Abstract
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Making right moral judgments on allocation of health care is important for reflecting our moral obligations in health policy making. There seems a wide-spread idea that health care should be distributed to meet one’s medical needs. This article argues that this idea fails to heed non-health considerations that should be factored in making right moral judgments on health-care allocation. Nonetheless, egalitarians have disagreements on how to heed them in our moral deliberation, and thus it is theoretically complex to come up with a complete normative account on allocation of health care. To illustrate this theoretical complexity, this article shows how egalitarians would consider three non-health factors in making their moral judgements on health-care allocation and articulates their potential common ground as well as their disagreements.
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KEYWORD
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health care, public health ethics, medical ethics, distributive justice, egalitarianism
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