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    Favoring individual B over individual A based on cost dif... — Carmelics
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    Favoring individual B over individual A based on cost difference alone is unfair when the cost difference is trivial

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    • 1.A trivial cost difference does not provide a morally significant justification for differential treatment
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    • 2.Differential treatment without morally significant justification is unfair
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    • 1.In resource-constrained healthcare systems, even trivial per-unit cost differences aggregate across populations into morally significant savings.
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    • 2.Redirecting aggregated savings toward unmet medical needs constitutes a legitimate distributive justice consideration, not mere unfairness to individuals.
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    • 1.Rawlsian and utilitarian frameworks both permit procedural rules that produce individually arbitrary-seeming outcomes when those rules maximize systemic fairness.
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    • 2.A consistent cost-sensitive allocation rule applied without discrimination is procedurally just even when its outputs appear locally unfair to specific claimants.
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    For cases (i) and (iii), primarily because of the use of QALY as a metric for benefit, the standard strategy for health resource allocation would favor B over A or C: because of their disabilities, ex post or ex ante, individuals A and C have worst health resource use outcomes than B. As with the life-saving cases, our intuitions seem to depend on how great the gap in quality of life is between A (or C) and B. Should A and C experience an extremely low quality of life after the treatment, while
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