<Li> How can healthcare best be administered to the greatest number of people? </Li> <Li> What are the necessary parameters for clinical trials and quality assurance? </Li> <Li> Who, if anybody, can decide when a patient is in need of "comfort measures" (euthanasia)? </Li> <P> However, the most important question of all is' what is health?' . Unless this question is addressed any debate about healthcare will be vague and unbounded . For example, what exactly is a health care intervention? What differentiates healthcare from engineering or teaching, for example? Is health care about' creating autonomy' or acting in people's best interests? Or is it always both? A' philosophy' of anything requires baseline philosophical questions, as asked, for example, by philosopher David Seedhouse . </P>

The way our healthcare system is organized is most like which civilization