Genetics and the Moral Mission of Health Insurance
- 1 November 1992
- journal article
- Published by JSTOR in Hastings Center Report
- Vol. 22 (6) , 12-7
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3562941
Abstract
Deciding whether genetic differences among individuals are morally relevant to health insurance requires us to ask, What kind of good is health care? and, What principles should govern its distribution? There are good reasons to doubt that "actuarial fairness" is an adequate description of genuine fairness in health insurance.Keywords
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