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Achieving Justice in the U.S. Healthcare System - Mercy is Sustainable; the Insatiable Thirst for Profit is Not (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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Achieving Justice in the U.S. Healthcare System - Mercy is Sustainable; the Insatiable Thirst for Profit is Not (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Library of Public Policy and Public Administration, 13
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This book focuses on justice and its demands in the way of
providing people with medical care. Building on recent insights on
the nature of moral perceptions and motivations from the
neurosciences, it makes a case for the traditional medical ethic
and examines its financial feasibility. The book starts out by
giving an account of the concept of justice and tracing it back to
the practices and tenets of Hippocrates and his followers, while
taking into account findings from the neurosciences. Next, it
considers whether the claim that it is just to limit medical care
for everyone to some basic minimum is justifiable. The book then
addresses finances and expenditures of the US health care system
and shows that the growth of expenditures and the percentage of the
gross national product spent on health care make for an
unsustainable trajectory. In light of the question what should be
changed, the book suggests that overdiagnosis and medicalizing
normal behavior lead to harmful, costly and unnecessary
interventions and are the result of unethical behavior on the part
of the pharmaceutical industry and extensive ethical failures of
the FDA. The book ends with suggestions about what can be done to
put the U.S. health care system on the path to sustainability,
better medical care, and compliance with the demands of justice.
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