PHIL 356 Lecture 17: Lecture 17
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Daniels: reasonable people can disagree about how to allocate scarce medical resources. An allocation is just only if it is the result of a just decision procedure. A decision procedure is just if and only if. Everyone can understand how the decision was reached. The decision was based on the sort of considerations that fair-minded people can accept as reasonable. There is some mechanism for challenging/revising the decision. If there were no individual mandate, then if insurance companies could not deny coverage to those with preexisting conditions, healthy people would not buy health insurance. If only the sick and the very old brought health insurance, the cost would be prohibitive. Choices regarding how to participate in the health care market are choices about commercial transactions. They do not disrupt any market that congress has the power to regulate.
