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Health Care and Equality of Opportunity
- Hastings Center Report
- The Hastings Center
- Volume 37, Number 2, March-April 2007
- pp. 21-31
- 10.1353/hcr.2007.0033
- Article
- Additional Information
One widely accepted way of justifying universal access to health care is to argue that access to health care is necessary to ensure health, which is necessary to provide equality of opportunity. But the evidence on the social determinants of health undermines this argument.