Chapter 11: Dividing Up Health Care Resources

Question 1

Distributive Justice

Answer 1

Justice regarding the fair distribution of society’s advantages and disadvantages.

Question 2

Egalitarian theories of justice

Answer 2

Doctrines affirming that important benefits and burdens of society should be distributed equally.

Question 3

Libertarian theories of justice

Answer 3

Doctrines holding that the benefits and burdens of society should be distributed through the fair workings of a free market and the exercise of liberty rights of noninterference.

Question 4

Managed Care

Answer 4

A system of providing health care to a particular group of patients (members of the system) using restraints to control costs and increase efficiency

Question 5

Utilitarian theories of justice

Answer 5

Doctrines asserting that a just distribution of the benefits and burdens is on e that maximizes net good (utility) for society.

Question 6

Negative Rights

Answer 6

The right not to have your pursuit of entitlements interfered with?

Question 7

Positive Rights

Answer 7

The right to have assistance in your pursuit of entitlements

Question 8

Enforced Beneficence

Answer 8

Rationale for government involvement in health care

Justification for ‘interference’ based on efforts to impart beneficence

Question 9

Rationing

Answer 9

Parceling out limited goods