Reports Outline Managed Care Findings from Leiden University (The Value of Dignity: Health Insurance, Ethics and Court Cases In Brazil): Managed Care

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2023 AUG 29 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Current study results on Managed Care have been published. According to news reporting originating from Leiden, Netherlands, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “This article examines court cases brought by clients against private health insurance companies and against Brazil’s public health system. When clients take private health insurers to court, they successfully claim that the insurer violated their dignity, which entitles them to a moral damage payment.”

Financial support for this research came from Horizon 2020 Framework Programme.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Leiden University, “Similar cases against the state did not include moral damage claims. In relation to public healthcare, it is somehow not possible to equate dignity with economic value. One might conclude that the dignity of consumers in the market is worth more than that of citizens vis-a-vis the state. Instead, I argue for a more subtle approach by concentrating on the ethics of incommensurability.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “What legal and ethical considerations lead to such a fundamental incommensurability between personhood and economic value? How do the actors involved in court proceedings (claimants, prosecutors, judges, and insurers) perceive the differences between cases against insurance companies and against public health authorities? What can we make of the differences between the legal and everyday understandings of dignity and morality?.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: The Value of Dignity: Health Insurance, Ethics and Court Cases In Brazil. Critique of Anthropology, 2023. Critique of Anthropology can be contacted at: Sage Publications Ltd, 1 Olivers Yard, 55 City Road, London EC1Y 1SP, England. (Sage Publications - http://www.sagepub.com/; Critique of Anthropology - coa.sagepub.com)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Erik Bahre, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275x231192308. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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