Abstract
The distribution of health care is dominated by nonmarket social institutions. In health economics, this allocation pattern is explained by referring to market failures of bearing risks. Howe er, as health is a moral related phenomenon, the nonmarket distribution of health care cannot be explained from an economical point of iew alone. In this paper, we present two of the most influential current moral theories, John Rawls’s egalitarian and Robert Nozick’s liberal theories of justice, and how they ha e been applied to health care. We find that both egalitarians as well as liberals argue for nonmarket social institutions in the health care sector. Ob iously, there is a parallelism between social institutions due to market failures and those due to moral conictions. Due to this parallelism, health economists implicitly refer to non-economic arguments when they explain the coming into being of social institutions in the health care sector.
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