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[BioEthics] Distributive Justice on Health Care Policy and Access

RUNNING HEAD : DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE IN HEALTH CARE

Distributive Justice on Health Care Policy and Access

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Distributive Justice on Health Care Policy and Access

Research has made headway with defribillators that can be made available to the general public in cases of cardiac arrests (Moorer , 2005 . The defribillators have already been shown to benefit individuals with the instant on-hand remedy that it offers . It has also been made readily purchasable as companies have made it available

over the counter . It would seem then that its benefits would be available to persons regardless of sex and age . The main consideration then turns to the availability of the device to the economically underprivileged population in the community . According to Moorer , this problem has been addressed by the distribution of the device to charities worldwide (2005 . Certainly , a certain portion of the underprivileged would have use for the device and would benefit from its technology

The contractarian approach to distributive justice would certainly be satisfied with this procedure (Rawls , 1971 . In this approach , Rawls advocates that whatever distribution of scarce resources is utilized is acceptable as long as to some extent the disadvantaged are also benefited (1971 . However the distribution of the resource to the disadvantaged and to the affluent is not commensurate . Some philosophers argue that this supposed equitable distribution of benefits is nothing more than a positive utilitarian approach (Cozzens , 2007 . The utilitarian perspective would advocate providing for those individuals who would contribute more to the advancement of the agencies producing the technology (Cozzens , 2007 . To state it simply , the utilitarian approach would simply ply their wares to the highest bidder . In essence when analyzing the distribution of the heart device in question , that is what is being practiced and the moral debt to society at large is paid off through charity-work . Cozzens then would argue that this is a strictly utilitarian project not only as characterized by the manner of distribution but as the defribillator addresses health problems involving affluent societies and fails to address the greater health issues that plague developing nations around the globe (2007 Utilitarianism would argue that in the long term , the economy and society is benefited with the approach that it pushes . Fields would state that economic growth generally benefits all persons in the economy through a trickle down mechanism (2001 . Thus , in the long run , the disadvantaged would still receive benefit

Regardless of these arguments , there are still improvements to be made in the distribution of the device in question . The writer advocates the communitarian approach in providing an equitable distribution of this perceived scarce resource . The communitarian approach focuses not just on distribution and re-distribution of resources but emphasizes community building (Cozzens , 2007 . Thus , the community that established the new technology has an obligation to communities in need of the same technology . This obligation is not necessarily translated into actual distribution of the same device to the community in need...

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