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Can we say no? : the challenge of rationing health care /

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"Examines the use of rationing as a means to curb health care spending, using the experience of Great Britain to highlight the promises and pitfalls of this approach"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aaron, Henry J.
Other Authors: Schwartz, William B., 1922-2009
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Health care rationing > Great Britain.
Health care rationing > United States.
Medical care, Cost of > Great Britain.
Medical care, Cost of > United States.
Health Care Rationing > Great Britain.
Health Care Rationing > United States.
Health Expenditures > Great Britain.
Health Expenditures > United States.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • The promise and the problem
  • The British system
  • Matters of life and death
  • Quality of life
  • Diagnoses
  • Rationing and efficiency
  • Efficiency and inefficiency in British health care
  • Rationing health care in the United States.