Justice, Liberty, and the Choice of Health-System Structure

Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Menzel, Paul T ^a  

^a PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti free riding principle; Distributive justice; Equal opportunity for welfare; Equity; Health care; Health insurance; Individual choice; Just sharing; Liberty; Market failure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907843321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199744206.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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