Can We Say No?: The Challenge of Rationing Health Care Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 2005-11-01
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0815701217
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Over the past four decades, the share of income devoted to health care in the United States has nearly tripled. If current policy remains unchanged, this worrisome trend is likely to continue. Should Americans decide to rein in the growth of health care spending, on the other hand, they will be forced to consider whether to ration care for the well insured--a prospect that is odious and unthinkable to many. In Can We Say No?, Henry Aaron and William B. Schwartz argue that sensible health care rationing not only can save money, but that it can improve general welfare and public health, as well. The book reviews Great Britain’s experience with health care rationing. The choices the British have made point up the nature of the options Americans will face if they wish to prevent public health care budgets from driving taxes even higher and private health care spending from crowding out increases in other forms of worker compensation and consumption. Aaron and Schwartz, along with Mel Download Can We Say No? for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Rationing in Medicine: Ethical, Legal and Practical Aspects (Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment) Pdf Reviews

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Edition: 2002
Release: 2001-12-18
Publisher: Springer
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 3540427821
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The present volume is the result of a conference devoted to the topic of Rationing in Medicine, which was organized by the Europäische Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer Entwicklungen Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler GmbH. One of the purposes of this volume is to contribute to a clarification of the concept of rationing and its possible implementations and thereby to help the participants in the debate to avoid further unnecessary confusion. Authors from the disciplines of medicine, philosophy, economics and law as well as practitioners of health care itself and from the field of health-care financing have contributed to this volume. Download Rationing in Medicine for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Using Health Economics in Health Services: Rationing Rationally? (State of Health) Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 2002-09
Publisher: Open University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 033520984X
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Using Health Economics in Health Services examines the impact of attempts to use 'rational' health economic analyses on local decision-making in the National Health Service. The book presents findings from an ethnographic study of one Health Authority and one Primary Care Group to present a rich picture of the processes and contexts of healthcare resource allocation at local level.

The conclusion of the book is that it is extremely difficult to use 'rational' solutions to resource allocation dilemmas at local level in the modern state. The adoption by local decision-makers of what appear to be non-rational coping strategies is essential to the maintenance of service delivery in the context of resource scarcity. Paradoxically, attempts to impose 'rational' decision-making threaten to undermine the precarious stability of the very systems they seek to improve. In this sense, the pursuit of rationality may itself be an irrational act.

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Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930 Pdf Reviews

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Release: 2012-09-15
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0226348032
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The 2010 Affordable Care Act is a sweeping reform to the US health care system. Despite the fact that nearly every other developed country in the world considers health care a right, the passage of the act in the United States was hard fought because of a staunch and vocal opposition to universal health care among many American lawmakers. Why has the United States been so continually divided on this issue? In Health Care for Some, Beatrix Hoffman offers an explanation in the form of an engaging and in-depth look at America’s long tradition of unequal access to health care.
Hoffman argues that two main features have characterized the US health system: a refusal to adopt a right to care and a particularly American type of rationing. Health Care for Some shows that the haphazard way the US system allocates medical services—using income, race, region, insurance coverage, and many other factors—is a disorganized, illogical, and powerful form of rationing. And unlike rationing in mo Download Health Care for Some for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Rationing Sanity: Ethical Issues in Managed Mental Health Care (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics series) Pdf Reviews

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Edition: 1
Release: 2003-12-12
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0878401458
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Mental illness is the poor, and somehow "damaged," cousin to physical ailments in the eyes of too many in our society. Compare the difference in how people would respond to someone who had fallen and broken their leg on the street, to how most react to those mentally ill among us, on those same streets, who spend their winters on steam grates and forage for food in dumpsters. Rationing Sanity is a provocative analysis of the mental health care system in the United States, dealing with issues of justice and access to mental health care.How should a decent society, affluent but facing many serious calls on its resources, best care for citizens afflicted with severe and persistent mental illnesses? James Lindemann Nelson brings together, for the first time, scholars of the ethics of mental health care and top managed care policy analysts to address this crucial problem. Rationing Sanity integrates those perspectives with the thoughtful practice-based experience of physicians well versed Download Rationing Sanity for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Rationing America's Medical Care: The Oregon Plan and Beyond (Brookings Dialogues on Public Policy) Pdf

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Release: 1992-03-01
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0815781970
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As America's struggle with the dual problem of exploding health costs and assuring access to health care for the uninsured, health care rationing has moved to the centre of the public policy debate. A prime example of this is the intense public discussion surrounding the proposal by the state of Oregon to provide universal health care but to ration which diagnoses and treatments will be covered. Focusing largely on the Oregon proposal, this volume examines a wide range of ethical, methodological, legal and political issues that must be addressed by any serious programme of health care reform. Download Rationing America's Medical Care for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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