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A 15 page analysis of the numerous issues interlacing health care delivery. The author observes that while these issues are most often addressed from a strictly business approach, a philosophical analysis is often warranted. The utilitarian philosophies of John Stewart Mill are compared with John Rawls’ two principles of justice, principles that contend that a concentration on the "greater good" can equate to a "tyranny of the majority". Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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is interlaced with an extraordinary number of ethical, philosophical, and moral issues. These issues range from the logistics of how to allocate services to the diversity of patients that
require those services to the logistics of how to respond to specific patient needs. The sheer cost of health care has introduced many of these issues. Limited resources paired
with a continually expanding population have introduced others. A degradation of the nursing/patient relationship, concerns over the control of diseases that have the potential to reach epidemic proportions,
and even technology itself can be held responsible for even more of the ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize modern day health care.
Health Care is a multifaceted arena which varies somewhat according to its specific application. While this variation is indeed a reality in between some aspects of health care,
there are often inaccurate perceptions of differences between certain delivery mechanisms in particular. There are often inaccuracies, for example, in the differences which are perceived between home health care
and public health care. In reality, these two health care delivery mechanism share more similarities than differences. Indeed, the same ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the
one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular concern, however, is the question of whether there is a continuity of care across hospital community boundaries. The combination
of a growing population and overtaxed medical resources have combined with technological developments to make home health care and more and more common option. With the employment of this
option, however, certain concerns must be addressed. There are differences inherent, for example, in tending to the patient in the organized environment of the hospital verses the home.
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