L11: Justice and the NHS

Question 1

What is keynesian economics in terms of health?

Answer 1

exact opposite of the free market

• Role of the state to invest, especially in times of financial depression (high unemployment in 1930s)
• Financial benefits
• Health service aimed to help individuals to be healthy

Question 2

What was the creation of the welfare state in 1948?

Answer 2

Creation of the NHS

Purpose of the NHS was healthcare for all – free at the point of delivery

Question 3

How was the rush to get things free on the NHS when it was first started stemmed?

Answer 3

Introducing prescription charges and for dentistry and optical services

Question 4

What does justice as desert mean?

Answer 4

• Treat people equally according to how deserving they are

- People deserve poor or good health – self inflicted disease/injury

Question 5

What does justice as maximising utility mean?

Answer 5

Jeremy Bentham utilitarianism
Maximising benefit for the most number of people
- Whichever treatment produces the most good to the most number of people

Question 6

What is justice as satisfying need?

Answer 6

Karl Marx – “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need”
Money would be spent on people who have lots of health care needs and no money to those who have no health care needs

Question 7

What are the 4 giants of want in society?

Answer 7

• Ignorance
• Disease
• Idleness
• Squalor