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A group of hospital administrators in Florida were discussing the amount of resources used to care for patients that were illegal immigrants and had no medical insurance.One man discussed how his hospital had spent over $2 million on one illegal immigrant who had no family or friends and who was not getting better.Another administrator stated that his hospital was losing $20 million annually in order to provide care for the influx of illegal immigrants into the state.After a great deal of discussion,it was determined that there was probably nothing anyone of them could do about the situation,and that each of them had very definite ideas about how to deal with the problems.
-Refer to Florida Hospitals.One administrator said,"If we were not forced to care for the illegal immigrants who have no resources and could empty our hospital beds of them,we could provide much better care for those law-abiding patients who have insurance." Because she believes in benefiting as many people as possible,she more than likely adheres to the _____ ethical theory.


A) utilitarianism
B) casuist
C) virtue ethics
D) moral relativity
E) deontological

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