title: The just provision of health care: a reply to Elizabeth Telfer.
abstract: Dr Hillel Steiner in this reply to Elizabeth Telfer takes each of her arguments for different arrangements of a health service and examines them--'four positions which can be located on a linear ideological spectrum'--and adds a fifth which could have the effect of 'turning the alleged linear spectrum into a circle'. Underlying both Elizabeth Telfer's article and Dr Steiner's reply, the base is inescapably a 'political' one, but cannot be abandoned in favour of purely philosophical concepts. Whatever the attitude of mind of the reader of these two papers to the provision of a health service, the stimulus to more careful assessments of our own National Health Service and its problems can only be good.
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D035082:Federal Government; D006801:Humans; D012950:Socialism; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom