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    It is not the case that National and global policy-setting structures should place a priority on health

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    • 1.Liberal political philosophy (Rawls, Nozick) holds that the state must remain neutral among competing conceptions of the good life.
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    • 2.Institutionally prioritizing health presupposes a particular conception of the good that privileged communities may reasonably reject.
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    • 3.A neutral state cannot coherently elevate health above other goods like religious observance, autonomy, or economic self-determination.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Norman Daniels' own framework concedes that health competes with education, income security, and other social determinants under real resource constraints.
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    • 2.Lexical priority for health in policy-setting produces systematic injustice by crowding out rival claims that are equally constitutive of fair equality of opportunity.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Health contributes to overall utility or welfare
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    • 2.Health has strategic importance to fair opportunity
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    • 3.Health is a central human capability
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