Reflections on the Justice of Distribution of Medical Resources of Health Care Insurance: With Linited Total Budget System as an Example.

• Main Authors: Chia-shuo Hus, 許家碩
• Other Authors: Shui-Chuen Lee
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/yqd22c

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 哲學研究所碩士在職專班 === 96 === Since its implement in March 1995, the Taiwan Universal Insurance System has covered more than 95% of the population. It has helped people released of the heavy burden of many of those serious diseases. So that people enjoy the benefit of medication without any fear or overburdened. The function of health care is to reduce pain, get opportunity for jobs, and improve quality of life and happiness. For, the government has the responsibility to protect and promote people’s health. Taiwan universal health insurance is a way to share medical risks and supports mainly medication. How to set up a mechanism for the distribution of scare medical resource is a great difficult problem for social justice. This thesis employs Norman Daniels theory of just health as the framework for the analysis of the distribution of medical resources, and based on the review of international systems, to probe deeper into the content and characteristics of the limited total budget system of Taiwan. We analyze the problems of its process of implement and evaluate its merits and disadvantages according to Daniels ten benchmark of fairness, to see how the three parties of the medical professional, the patients and the insurer (The Health Care Insurance Beaura. We try to build upon this study to suggest some of the needed ethical background and propose improvements that fit into the need of our health care insurance.