Are There Limits to Solidarity with the Elderly?

...[T]he basic package [of health care services] should be equally to all, without financial constraints like copayments or obligatory. A two-tier system based on the principle of humanitarian solidarity care, not cure, at the center of its efforts to provide an adequate level health care. While cure has a permanent tendency to vanquish the barriers illness and death, care has much more modest aspirations and is more-containing. Moreover, the emphasis on care can preserve respect for the person that might be endangered by the need to set limits and the of acute services from the basic package. By securing access to-term care services and limiting access to some acute care services, a-tier system based on the principle of humanitarian solidarity might limit medicalization of old age that is the most important threat to the between the young and the old.