Age-based rationing and women

The expense of caring for growing numbers of older individuals can strong incentives to ration health care based on age. While not explicitly at women, this form of rationing would affect women because more women than men occupy the ranks of older. A proper understanding of age-based rationing requires attention to issues. Once gender issues are taken into account, age-based rationing to perpetuate broader gender inequities in the society. This position supported by three arguments. First, although age-based rationing leads to between age groups, the inequalities it produces between the are more ethically troubling. Second, these departures from equality be justified even when they benefit society at large by enabling in other health care priorities. Finally, since older women a disadvantaged and vulnerable group, age-based rationing is to justify even if our obligation to protect the vulnerable is.