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Regarding Normal Daniels´ third focal point, which poses a question whether and how we are
able to meet health needs fairly when we can´t meet them all. This focal point closely tied to
the allocation of resources towards healthcare and there is an agreement that no society can or
should devote unlimited resources towards healthcare, they need to be limited.
His answer as read throughout the chapter seem to be amounting points which establish
“accountability for reasonableness”. Meeting health needs has an important effect on the
distribution of opportunity, thus in order to meet health needs fairly institutions need to be
regulated on the basis of fair equality of opportunity principle.
This strategy seems as the natural progression of Rawls´s view, but as we don´t always have
the same outlook on the aims of health. Daniels addresses this lack of consensus by stating that
it is imperative to find a process which we can agree on as just or fair.
He, alongside James Sabin amounts to four conditions in the process of meeting health fairly.
To meet them fairly means going through a public process that fulfils the conditions of
publicity, relevance, appeals and enforcement and which involves the relevant stakeholders.
These conditions are here to fortify and support the process of meeting health needs fairly and
not to serve as a replacement to that process.