title: Genetics and the moral mission of health insurance.
abstract: Deciding whether genetic differences among individuals are morally relevant to health insurance requires us to ask, What kind of good is health care? and, What principles should govern its distribution? There are good reasons to doubt that "actuarial fairness" is an adequate description of genuine fairness in health insurance.
authors.affiliation: Center for Biomedical Ethics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University.
authors.forename: T H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Murray
mesh_terms: D000206:Actuarial Analysis; D035082:Federal Government; D005820:Genetic Testing / Q000191:economics*; D033161:Government Regulation; D006291:Health Policy; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007343:Insurance Carriers / Q000592:standards; D015271:Insurance Pools; D015273:Insurance Selection Bias; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000592:standards*; D009014:Morals; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012935:Social Justice; D014481:United States