{"id":1729,"date":"2010-07-19T11:42:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T15:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ispeculate.wpmudev.host\/main\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2010-07-19T11:42:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T15:42:17","slug":"meaning-of-equal-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/07\/19\/meaning-of-equal-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaning of Equal Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gene Outka wrote the article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/pss\/40018097\">Social Justice and Equal Access to Health Care<\/a>&#8221; in 1974. It is still as relevant now as it was then. In it Outka reminds us that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Health crises seem non-meritarian because they occur so often for reasons beyond our control or power to predict.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The claim that some are to be treated differently based on merit or virtues, forces us to come to a conclusion that some people are more than others. Such a conclusion calls us to give all human beings a price tag.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If one agrees, for whatever reasons, with the agapeic judgment that each person should be regarded as irreducibly valuable, then one cannot succumb to a social productiveness criterion of human worth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Therefore, concept of merit or\u00a0virtues, are useless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene Outka wrote the article &#8220;Social Justice and Equal Access to Health Care&#8221; in 1974. It is still as relevant now as it was then. In it Outka reminds us that: Health crises seem non-meritarian because they occur so often for reasons beyond our control or power to predict. The claim that some are to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/07\/19\/meaning-of-equal-access\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meaning of Equal Access<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[89,108],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-injustice","tag-my-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}