Ethical considerations of pricing of belgian healthcare services

Abstract Healthcare is of most importance to consumers, and analyzing how its price is being fixed and perceived will reveal interesting insights for the literature. In order to respond to the study question: “Is pricing of healthcare in Belgium fair?”, firstly the existing literature on ethics, marketing and pricing basis are analyzed and discussed. The ethics basis is set through four visions: utilitarianism, liberalism, marxism and liberal egalitarianism, and the most relevant ones to the Belgium society, utilitarianism and liberal egalitarianism, are used to reach the conclusions. Literatu... Mehr ...