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PMID: 18240024 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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I will focus on Dworkin's use of idealisation in his "Prudent Insurance" Ideal for healthcare. Dworkin identifies problems with the circumstances under which people make their insurance decisions in the current United States healthcare system and he sees these as being the cause of strange resource allocation outcomes. He therefore imagines idealising away these prima facie unjust circumstances to develop a hypothetical market in which people are able to make better decisions (Section "Idealisation of Circumstance"). I will identify two further idealisations that Dworkin relies on in his theory. The first is to idealise people to be perfectly prudent (Section "Idealisation of Prudence"), which I consider to be justifiable, but difficult to actually apply in practise. The second is to idealise people to be perfectly self-interested (Section "Idealisation to Self-interest"). I do not see this as a justifiable idealization since it ignores principles of altruism and citizenship, which would seem to be deeply relevant to a theory of justice. |
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Authors:
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Saffron Clackson |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2007-06-21 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy Volume: 16 ISSN: 1065-3058 ISO Abbreviation: Health Care Anal Publication Date: 2008 Mar |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2008-02-01 Completed Date: 2008-08-07 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9432537 Medline TA: Health Care Anal Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 31-8 Citation Subset: H |
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Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RH, UK. saffronclackson@yahoo.co.uk |
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Altruism Decision Making / ethics* Delivery of Health Care / ethics* Humans Insurance, Health / ethics* Models, Psychological Motivation Personal Autonomy Resource Allocation / ethics |
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