title: Fair Innings and Time-Relative Claims.
abstract: Greg Bognar has recently offered a prioritarian justification for 'fair innings' distributive principles that would ration access to healthcare on the basis of patients' age. In this article, I agree that Bognar's principle is among the strongest arguments for age-based rationing. However, I argue that this position is incomplete because of the possibility of 'time-relative' egalitarian principles that could complement the kind of lifetime egalitarianism that Bognar adopts. After outlining Bognar's position, and explaining the attraction of time-relative egalitarianism, I suggest various ways in which these two kinds of principle could interact. Since various options have very different implications for age-based rationing, proponents of such a rationing scheme must take a position on time-relative egalitarianism to complement a lifetime prioritarian view like Bognar's.
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Davies
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006801:Humans; D012935:Social Justice
keywords: age; egalitarianism; healthcare; rationing; welfare