 To avoid this problem of inconsistency, Jayna Fishman and Douglas MacKay (2019) and Johannes Kniess (2019) rework Rawls’s theory of justice, developing a Rawlsian conception of the social determinants of health—the social bases of health—and arguing that it should be considered a social primary good. Fishman and MacKay (2019) and Kniess (2019) disagree however on which Rawlsian principle should govern the distribution of this good. Fishman and MacKay (2019) argue that the parties to the original position would choose an additional principle of justice to govern the distribution of the social bases of health and assign it lexical priority over fair equality of opportunity and the difference principle. According to this principle, the