Health care and Rawls’s theory of justice Singapore : a case study
The principles of distributive justice instruct the proportioning of finite public resources and can be used to legitimize a particular social arrangement. This paper seeks to evaluate whether the distribution of health care resources (quality, cost, freedom of choice) in Singapore is just. It begin...
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| author | Soh, Ming Li |
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| description | The principles of distributive justice instruct the proportioning of finite public resources and can be used to legitimize a particular social arrangement. This paper seeks to evaluate whether the distribution of health care resources (quality, cost, freedom of choice) in Singapore is just. It begins with a review of John Rawls’s seminal work A Theory of Justice, which forms the foundational model of justice for this inquiry, and an examination of the uniqueness of health care as a social good. Two features of the Singapore health care system, the Community Health Assist Scheme (CHAS) and the Medisave-Medishield-Medifund (3M) financing framework, are then discussed and evaluated for the extent to which they improve systemic justice in health care. A brief comparison is made with two other models of health care financing: the free market and egalitarian models. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/697282019-12-10T11:42:53Z Health care and Rawls’s theory of justice Singapore : a case study Soh, Ming Li Christopher Holman School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences The principles of distributive justice instruct the proportioning of finite public resources and can be used to legitimize a particular social arrangement. This paper seeks to evaluate whether the distribution of health care resources (quality, cost, freedom of choice) in Singapore is just. It begins with a review of John Rawls’s seminal work A Theory of Justice, which forms the foundational model of justice for this inquiry, and an examination of the uniqueness of health care as a social good. Two features of the Singapore health care system, the Community Health Assist Scheme (CHAS) and the Medisave-Medishield-Medifund (3M) financing framework, are then discussed and evaluated for the extent to which they improve systemic justice in health care. A brief comparison is made with two other models of health care financing: the free market and egalitarian models. Bachelor of Arts 2017-03-24T04:22:05Z 2017-03-24T04:22:05Z 2017 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69728 en Nanyang Technological University 38 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences Soh, Ming Li Health care and Rawls’s theory of justice Singapore : a case study |
| title | Health care and Rawls’s theory of justice Singapore : a case study |
| title_full | Health care and Rawls’s theory of justice Singapore : a case study |
| title_fullStr | Health care and Rawls’s theory of justice Singapore : a case study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Health care and Rawls’s theory of justice Singapore : a case study |
| title_short | Health care and Rawls’s theory of justice Singapore : a case study |
| title_sort | health care and rawls s theory of justice singapore a case study |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences |
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