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Folland- What is pareto optimality, and how is it relevant to health policy debates? - Pareto optimality is a distribution of resources for which no individual can be made better off without someone else being made worse off. This essentially means that all mutually beneficial trades have already been made In what ways is HC an imperfect market, and is the importance of this universally accepted as being important to considerations about health care organization? - FGS explain the state of the question about health care being an imperfect market in a footnote on p. 199. The view that it is an "imperfect market" because of deep problems with assymetry of information is not necessarily to health care, and should not by itself be enough to support a "no- market" approach. What is the main problem with Nozick's treatment of Kant? - Formal freedom of the kind necessitated by supposed total non-enslavement is actually in some cases a little like enslavement. Persons with total formal freedom but no material freedom still end up pretty much enslaved. Does Cherry think that only libertarianism supports ownership (non-essential) of body parts? - No, Cherry explains why forms of autonomy based ownership, benefit-based ownership, and even some special-consideration based ownership (which evaluate ownership based on equality), would all support body-part ownership. On whom, according to Trotter, is the burden of proof? - The burden of proof, generally speaking, is on the one changing the status quo or violating a norm.