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How do we distribute scarce resources? What if the scarce resource is a life saving drug to treat ebola?

Below are three articles about these questions.

Additional questions to consider could include: Is it ethical to profit from developing and profiting from life saving medication? What if removing profit motive would remove the desire to create the medicine in the first place?

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/bioethicist-experimental-ebola-treatment-endorsed-who-gets-it-n178691

http://time.com/3104174/who-gets-the-experimental-ebola-drugs/

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/06/ebola-experimental-drugs-patients-west-africa-world-health-organisation-placebo-trials-fda