PHIL 213 Quiz: Harris-Micro Allocation
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The assumption will be made that the necessity to choose between patients and examine the ethics of some of the ways that are usually proposed for coping with scarcity. There is a clear distinction between the need for health and the need for health care, which s is relevant only where health care cannot deliver health. Some tend to equate the need with capacity to benefit, rather than with other conceptions of need, because they believe they know how to measure capacity to benefit. One plausible candidate for such an indicator is to ask what the patient stands to lose if they are not treated and try to assess the scale of the loss. Qaly: approach to micro-allocation tends to bias the health-care system in favor of the young and against the old because, other things being equal, the young have more life years to gain from treatment than the old.
