Philosophy 2715F/G Lecture 16: Healthcare Ethics – Lecture 16
9 Mar 2017
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Justice and access to health care: equity as equality (canadian answer, equity means: If someone has access, everyone should have access as well. If someone does not have access to a treatment, no one should have access to that treatment. Disagrees w/ the findings of the president"s commission. Argues that there is no positive right to health care and the government does not have an obligation to provide it. Right: a moral claim that one person has against another, a right to life; a right not to be killed, to say that someone has a right is to say that someone else has a duty . Negative right: right that others not do things to the right holder, e. g. , a right not to be killed, freedom from interference or harm. Positive right: right that others, upon pain of punishment, are to provide the right holder w/ a good or service that is advantageous to the recipient.
