@article {Steiner185, author = {H Steiner}, title = {The just provision of health care: a reply to Elizabeth Telfer.}, volume = {2}, number = {4}, pages = {185--189}, year = {1976}, doi = {10.1136/jme.2.4.185}, publisher = {Institute of Medical Ethics}, abstract = {Dr Hillel Steiner in this reply to Elizabeth Telfer takes each of her arguments for different arrangements of a health service and examines them--{\textquoteright}four positions which can be located on a linear ideological spectrum{\textquoteright}--and adds a fifth which could have the effect of {\textquoteright}turning the alleged linear spectrum into a circle{\textquoteright}. Underlying both Elizabeth Telfer{\textquoteright}s article and Dr Steiner{\textquoteright}s reply, the base is inescapably a {\textquoteright}political{\textquoteright} one, but cannot be abandoned in favour of purely philosophical concepts. Whatever the attitude of mind of the reader of these two papers to the provision of a health service, the stimulus to more careful assessments of our own National Health Service and its problems can only be good.}, issn = {0306-6800}, URL = {https://jme.bmj.com/content/2/4/185}, eprint = {https://jme.bmj.com/content/2/4/185.full.pdf}, journal = {Journal of Medical Ethics} }