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Rationing health care: an exploration

Health Policy, 1999
Rationing involves a failure to offer care, or the denial of care, from which patients would benefit. Rationing involves definition of efficiency (benefit) and equity (fairness) allocation criteria and a recognition of a trade-off between the two. However, accountability for rationing choices also requires careful governance of the agents of society ...
Alan Maynard
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Symbols, Rationality, and Justice: Rationing Health Care

American Journal of Law & Medicine, 1992
Proposals to ration health care in the United States meet a number of objections, symbolic and literal. Nonetheless, an acceptance of the idea of rationing is a necessary first step toward universal health insurance. It must be understood that universal health care requires an acceptance of rationing, and that such an acceptance must precede enactment ...
Callahan, Daniel
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Just Caring: Health Reform and Health Care Rationing

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1994
Health reform must include health care rationing, both for reasons of fairness and efficiency. Few politicians are willing to accept this claim, including the Clinton Administration. Brown and others have argued that enormous waste and inefficiency must be wrung out of our health care system before morally problematic cost constraining options, such as
Fleck, Leonard M.
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An Ethical Framework for Rationing Health Care

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1992
This paper proposes an ethical framework for rationing publicly-financed health care. We begin by classifying alternative rationing criteria according to their ethical basis. We then examine the ethical arguments for four rationing criteria.
Nancy S Jecker, Robert A Pearlman, Jecker Nancy S   +2 more
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Health care should be rationed

British Journal of Nursing, 1999
Rationing of health care, in its simplest form, is finite resource allocation within a context of infinite demand. It is a method of determining which services receive funding and which treatments can be afforded.
Cutcliffe, John R., Blatt, Barry
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Rationing health care in France

Health Policy, 1999
Since the Plan Juppé (1995), many facets of the French health care system have been the target of new legislative measures. This paper discusses the main features of the financing and provision of health care services, and focuses on issues related to priority setting and rationing.
P J, Lancry, S, Sandier
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Rationing Health Care

Southern Medical Journal, 1995
As the American health care system struggles to provide universal access to quality care at an acceptable price, many planners focus on rationing as the only way to make available the necessary resources. I discuss some of the ethical, economic, and political issues that relate to health care rationing.
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Health Care Rationing

2014
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Can Health Care Rationing Ever Be Rational?

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2012
Mr. M. was a 77-year-old decisionally incapacitated long-term nursing home resident with chronic schizophrenia who was admitted to the hospital with a bacterial pneumonia. His past medical history was notable for deteriorating functional status over the past 2-3 years, urinary retention requiring chronic indwelling bladder catheterization, and two ...
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Managed mental health care: Will it be rationed care or rational care?

Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal, 1993
The increasing popularity and acceptance of managed mental health care has intensified people’s concern about the rationing of mental health services. The obvious worry is that the definition of what services will be available in a managed care benefit package will be minimal in extensiveness and intensiveness.
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