Why Health Is Not Special: Errors In Evolved Bioethics Intuitions

Social Philosophy and Policy 19 (2):153-179 (2002)
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Abstract

There is a widespread feeling that health is special; the rules that are usually used in other policy areas are not applied in health policy. Health economists, for example, tend to be reluctant to offer economists' usual prescription of competition and consumer choice, even though they have largely failed to justify this reluctance by showing that health economics involves special features such as public goods, externalities, adverse selection, poor consumer information, or unusually severe consequences.

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