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In ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES, leading authorities and researchers expose the basic philosophical, ethical, and economic issues underlying the current health care debate. The contributors wrestle with such complicated issues as whether it is ethical to ration health care, the morality of the w...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Humber, James M., Almeder, Robert F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [1995]
Series:Biomedical ethics reviews ; 1994.
Subjects:
Health care rationing.
Health Care Rationing > United States.
Health Expenditures > United States.
Soins médicaux > Rationnement.
Gezondheidszorg.
Allocatie.
Ethische aspecten.
Gesundheitsökonomie.
Ethik.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Medizinische Versorgung.
Gesundheitspolitik.
USA.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Better health care through rationing / Richard D. Lamm
  • The ethics of health care rationing as a strategy of cost-containment / Lawrence W. White and Mary Ellen Waithe
  • Rationing, rhetoric, and rationality: a review of the health care rationing debate in America and Europe / Robert Baker
  • An evaluation of Clinton's health care proposal / George W. Rainbolt
  • Health care allocation: a deflationary account / John Douard
  • Hypothetical choice approaches to health care allocation / Madison Powers
  • Sin taxes as a mechanism of health care finance: moral and policy considerations / Jeffrey Kahn
  • The injustice of age bias against children in allocating health care / Loretta M. Kopelman.