[Avodah] priorities

[Rich, Joel]

One example was given a fixed budget to choose a drug that saves the lives of a few
or one that relieves severe pain (bit doesnt affect pikuach nefesh) of the many.
RYSE paskened that for the government they should choose to help the many because
that is what most taxpayers would want. However, a private physician has to save
the life of the individual. The priorities in the gemara affect the individual and not the
tzibbur.
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Did he give a makor for this chiluk?  Would he say this if one of the "few" was the melech? nasi? or does beit din decide when the masses are shotim?
KT
Joel Rich


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