Evidence suggests , elements such as younger patients, patients with larger expected health improvement after treatment and low cost treatments, are associated with the “principle of efficiency”, while supporting healthy lifestyle in terms of health care priority is associated with the “principle of merit”. The hypothesis of their research was that participants with higher educational level would be supportive of the principles of efficiency and merit, in contrast to participants with lower educational background. However, this hypothesis was confirmed neither from their study nor from the present study. Instead, participants with lower education support importance values that are associated with the efficiency principle. It should also be noted that other researchers reached the conclusion that accepting “age” as a criterion for health care resource allocation is not associated with the respondents’ educational level .