Zan Boag: What responsibility does a society have for the health of its individuals? Where do individual responsibility and societal responsibility begin and end?
Hilde Lindemann: Health depends on a number of factors, and access to healthcare is only one of them. Good societies provide a decent minimum of healthcare to everyone, including non-citizens, but they also provide things like plumbing, clean water, housing for the homeless, adequate food, health and safety regulations for workplace...
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