Market Incentives and Health Care Reform
The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey, USA
Address correspondence to: James Stacey Taylor, PhD, Bliss Hall 106, Department of Philosophy, The College of New Jersey, PO Box 7710, 2000 Pennington Road, Ewing, NJ 08628, USA. E-mail: jtaylor{at}tcnj.edu
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It is generally agreed that the current methods of providing health care in the West need to be reformed. Such reforms must operate within the practical limitations to which any future system of health care will be subject. These limitations include an increase in the demand for costly end-of-life health care coupled with a reduction in the proportion of the population who are working taxpayers (and hence a reduction in the proportionate amount of health care funding that can be secured through taxation) and the fact that the imposition of bureaucratic regulations on health care systems is costly. Recognizing these limitations should naturally lead one to consider market-based reforms. Yet despite the practical impetus for such reforms, there is still widespread concern that market-based health care is unethical. The purpose of this paper is to address this concern and, in so doing, to pave the way for the market-based reform of health care to proceed.
Keywords: ethics, health care reform, markets
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