DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE

Distributive Justice

Distributive Justice

Introduction

The main purpose of this paper is to give an overview on the issue, that whether it is ethically acceptable for hospitals to charge uninsured patients more than insured patients for the same medical procedure. It is a normal view in the hospitals that they charge uninsured patients more than the insured patients.

Discussion

It is a common phenomenon that hospitals charge more to uninsured patients than the insured patients. This phenomenon comes under the Distributive Justice. Distributive justice is the term that occurs when larger communities or the State provide their members what they should provide for their subsistence ...