What makes a just healthcare system?

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Privatisation of health care, seen by many as a panacea in the face of resource constraints, is usually attacked by critics on two fronts: firstly, as failing to achieve the benefits invoked to justify it (greater choice for consumers and providers, increased efficiency, and higher quality of services); and, secondly, as being destructive of the physician-patient relationship.5 There is evidence that privatisation of health insurance is costly, has growing administrative costs, offers less rather than more choice for consumers and providers, and fails to improve the quality of care.6 In a masterly presentation on American health care, Professor Allen Buchanan, professor of philosophy at the …