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Genetics and the moral mission of health insurance
1Center for Biomedical Ethics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University.
The Hastings Center Report
|November 1, 1992
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.