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Access to health care should not be restricted by a person's wealth because a life cannot be assigned a monetary value.

-or, turning the sentence round, "A monetary value cannot be placed on..."

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https://quizlet.com/277353972/business-ethics-final-flash-ca...
- very much against assigning monetary value to all things - there are limits > coerced into contracts (poor being offered bad contracts but supply a need) and corruption (moral importance of some goods - ending a great day with a friend and paying them $50) - some things are degraded when they are put into the market

https://issues.org/polasky/
For example, what is the monetary value of conserving species with important spiritual or cultural value? Some critics contend that individuals are cognitively incapable of evaluating tradeoffs between utilitarian goods (such as commodities and ecosystem services) and moral goods (such as the existence of a species).

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318325214_From_cont...
From contention to mainstream: valuing and institutionalizing moral products. ... assigned a monetary value (Fourcade, 2011 ... we do not explicitly focus on how the price of moral goods is ...