A Good Samaritan inspired foundation for a fair health care system
| Autor: | Elmar H. Frangenberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Předmět: |
Health (social science)
Health(social science) Education Private good Cost spiral in health care Health care cooperative Social Justice Health care Humans Medicine Distributive justice Health policy HRHIS Government business.industry Health as private good Health Policy Built in cost control Scientific Contribution Public relations United States Patient Rights Law Community health Accounting information system Health Expenditures business Delivery of Health Care Beneficence as universal attitude Autonomy equals self-rule |
| Zdroj: | Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy |
| ISSN: | 1572-8633 1386-7423 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11019-010-9259-y |
| Popis: | Distributive justice on the income and on the service aspects is the most vexing modern day problem for the creation and maintenance of an all inclusive health care system. A pervasive problem of all current schemes is the lack of effective cost control, which continues to result in increasing burdens for all public and private stakeholders. This proposal posits that the responsibility and financial obligation to achieve an ideal outcome of equal and affordable access and benefits for all citizens is misplaced. The Good Samaritan demonstrated basic ethical principles, which are revisited, elaborated and integrated into a new approach to health care. The participants are limited to individual contributors and beneficiaries and organized as a citizen carried, closed, independent, and self-sufficient self-governing cooperative for their own and the benefit of a minority of disadvantaged health care consumers. The government assumes oversight, provides arbitration, enforces democratic decision making, a scheme of progressive taxation, a separate and transparent accounting system, and a balance between income and reinvestment in health care. The results are a fair distribution of cost, its effective control, and increased individual motivation to take on responsibility for personal health as a private good and a sharpened focus towards community health. At the sociopolitical level the government as well as employers are released from the inappropriate burden of catering to individual health. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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