Should the committee pay attention to...
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Age?
Age should be a huge factor. If a ninety-year-old who is close to death needs the same organ than an otherwise healthy twenty-year-old, the twenty-year-old should get it because he will live longer and have a larger impact on the world. …show more content…
Needs- This is the allocations of treatment based on the individual’s essential needs. For example, a patient with a critical need or a treatment would receive it over the patient with the minor need for treatment …show more content…
For example, if a patient could stand, pay, talk, etc, they would get the resource over the patent would could not (100).
Compensatory Justice- The distributions of resources to those who could not previously access them. For example, a poor person could lack medical care in the past but now is eligible for care due to this concept (100).
Utilitarian ethometrics- The principle which seeks to creates the greatest amount of happiness, good, or benefit for the greatest amount of people (100).
Egalitarian- a principle which seeks to provide “similar treatment to similar cases”(100). This is often viewed as the most moral way to distribute scarce resources among a large number of patients. For example, a lottery style draw can be held and the patient who is picked receives treatment the first (100).provide “similar treatment to similar cases”(100). This is often viewed as the most moral way to distribute scarce resources among a large number of patients. For example, a lottery style draw can be held and the patient who is picked receives treatment the first