Fair Innings and Time-Relative Claims
Greg Bognar has recently offered a prioritarian justification for ‘fair innings’ distributive principles that would ration access to healthcare on the basis of patients' age. In this article, I agree that Bognar's principle is among the strongest arguments for age-based rationing. However,...
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2016]
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Bioethics
Jahr: 2016, Band: 30, Heft: 6, Seiten: 462-468 |
RelBib Classification: | NCH Medizinische Ethik VA Philosophie |
weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Rationing
B Welfare B Healthcare B Egalitarianism B Age |
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Zusammenfassung: | Greg Bognar has recently offered a prioritarian justification for ‘fair innings’ distributive principles that would ration access to healthcare on the basis of patients' age. In this article, I agree that Bognar's principle is among the strongest arguments for age-based rationing. However, I argue that this position is incomplete because of the possibility of ‘time-relative' egalitarian principles that could complement the kind of lifetime egalitarianism that Bognar adopts. After outlining Bognar's position, and explaining the attraction of time-relative egalitarianism, I suggest various ways in which these two kinds of principle could interact. Since various options have very different implications for age-based rationing, proponents of such a rationing scheme must take a position on time-relative egalitarianism to complement a lifetime prioritarian view like Bognar's. |
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ISSN: | 1467-8519 |
Enthält: | Enthalten in: Bioethics
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12234 |