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WHY HEALTH IS NOT SPECIAL: ERRORS IN EVOLVED BIOETHICS INTUITIONS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2002

Robin Hanson
Robin Hanson
Affiliation:
Economics, George Mason University
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There is a widespread feeling that health is special; the rules that are usually used in other policy areas are not applied in health policy. Health economists, for example, tend to be reluctant to offer economists' usual prescription of competition and consumer choice, even though they have largely failed to justify this reluctance by showing that health economics involves special features such as public goods, externalities, adverse selection, poor consumer information, or unusually severe consequences.

Type
Research Article
Information
Social Philosophy and Policy , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , July 2002 , pp. 153 - 179
Copyright
© 2002 Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation

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