Justice and Health Care

Justice is frequently in the background of debates about health care in the US. Is health care a right and is it unjust if some people do not have access to it? Are disparities in health care access fair? Did the recently passed health care reform legislation create a more just system? Dr. Mathis delivered a presentation to the University of Tennessee School of Public Health Graduate Seminar that looks at how some philosophers have applied the idea of justice to health care. It offers suggestions for how philosophy can be used to advance a more reasoned discourse with respect to health care policy. Click to view.