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Justice is to be Financed Before It is to be Done: A Confucian Approach to Hong Kong Public Health Care Reform

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This paper first gives an overview of the healthcare financing system in Hong Kong and then briefly explicates the reasons for reforming the existing financing system. It argues that the reform should be guided by the care-based conception of social justice in Confucianism and that a just health care system should guarantee a decent minimal level of service for all as determined by an open and accountable mechanism of rationing. Based on this argument, the paper concludes that the sustainability of the public health care system in Hong Kong should be maintained by strengthening the rationing measures and revamping the fee structure in accordance with the Confucian conception of social justice.

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    Ho-Mun Chan

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Chan, HM. (2003). Justice is to be Financed Before It is to be Done: A Confucian Approach to Hong Kong Public Health Care Reform. In: Qiu, RZ. (eds) Bioethics: Asian Perspectives. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0419-9_19

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