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Rationing Health Care: From Needs to Markets?
, 1995 Rationing health care is not new. As governments world wide struggle to contain the costs of health care, health policy analysts debate how rationing should be done.
Liss, Per-Erik +2 more
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Public Health Care with Waiting Time: The Role of Supplementary Private Health Care [PDF]
We consider an economy where most of the health care is publicly provided,and where there is waiting time for several types of treatments. Privatehealth care without waiting time is an option for the patients in the publichealth queue.
Erik Magnus Sæther, Michael Hoel
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Age-based rationing of health care. [PDF]
, 1995 The U.S. has focused attention on the rising costs of health care coincident with the increasing age of the population. Arguments have been made to overtly ration care to older persons; however, general acceptance of the need to ration scarce resources ...
Blanchette, P L
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Preferred providers, health insurance and primary health care in Chile
, 2006 PhDReforms in the early 1980s created Chile's mixed system of health care provision and finance. Since then Chileans have had to choose between a statesubsidised public health insurance system or the private health plans offered by several insurance ...
Höfter, Ricardo Andres Henriquez
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The concept of stewardship in health policy
Bulletin of the World Health OrganizationThere is widespread agreement that both the configuration and the application of state authority in the health sector should be realigned in the interest of achieving agreed policy objectives.
Richard B. Saltman +1 more
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Private health care as a supplement to a public health system with waiting time for treatment [PDF]
In this article the authors Michael Hoel and Erik Magnus Sæther consider an economy where most of the health care is publicly provided, and where there is waiting time for several types of treatments. Private health care without waiting time is an option
Sæther, Erik Magnus, Hoel, Michael
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Just Caring: Oregon, Health Care Rationing and Informed Democratic Deliberation
, 1994 . This essay argues that our national efforts at health reform ought to be informed by eleven key lessons from Oregon. Specifically, we must learn that the need for health care rationing is inescapable, that any rationing process must be public and ...
Leonard M. Fleck, Fleck, Leonard M.
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Municipality level accessibility to specialized health care in Norway [PDF]
In the Norwegian health care system equal distribution and access to care regardless of social status, gender, ethnicity and area of living has been raised as an important issue.
Lafkiri, Khalid
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The moral relevance of personal characteristics in setting health care priorities [PDF]
This paper discusses the moral relevance of accounting for various personal characteristics when prioritising between groups of patients. After a review of the results from empirical studies, we discuss the ethical reasons which might explain – and ...
Olsen, Jan Abel +3 more
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Shaping up to improve health: the strategic leadership role of the new Health Authority [PDF]
The latest return to service planning in the NHS, while harnessing the perceived benefits of previous market approaches, nevertheless signals a radical change in the long-term role of the Health Authority. It is timely to examine the actual objectives of
Brian Ferguson
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