The paper by Macchi and Pavan [
[1]
] reaffirms that sustainable publicly funded healthcare systems depend on a mature
recognition of the necessity to manage scarcity. The moral importance of preventing
and treating diseases and disability with effective health care systems derives from
the way in which protecting normal functioning contributes to protecting opportunity
and preserving the individual ability to participate in the political, social and
economic lives of their society. It is therefore of the utmost importance to have
an universalistic health care system. In recent years this need has been undermined
by the constant reduction of the resources necessary to maintain an acceptable standard
of public health care.Keywords
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Publication history
Published online: December 11, 2015
Accepted:
September 4,
2015
Received:
August 28,
2015
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