Responsibility, freedom, and forgiveness in health care

Aitor Calo-Blanco ()
Additional contact information
Aitor Calo-Blanco: Université catholique de Louvain, CORE, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium and University of A. Coruna, Spain

No 2012004, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Abstract: This paper focuses on the optimal allocation between health and lifestyle choices when a society is concerned about both fairness and forgiveness. Based on the idea of fresh starts, we construct a social ordering that permits us to make welfare assessments when it is acceptable to compensate individuals who have mismanaged their initial endowment. Our social rule also allows for the inclusion of the fairness approach in the model, to deal with the well-known clash between the principle of compensation and the principle of reward. Based on ethical principles, we propose the application of a minimax criterion to the distance between the individual's final bundle and an ideal allocation.

Keywords: fairness; health care; lifestyle preferences; regret; fresh start (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 H51 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-02-21
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://sites.uclouvain.be/core/publications/coredp/coredp2012.html (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cor:louvco:2012004

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) Voie du Roman Pays 34, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Alain GILLIS ().