scholarly journals A critique of using age to ration health care.

1993 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
R W Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Ration Health Care

Is it Necessary to Ration Health Care?

1998 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penelope M. Mullen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Ration Health Care

Developing methods that really do value the ‘Q’ in the QALY

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL DOLAN
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
General Public ◽  
Full Health ◽  
Risk Of Death ◽  
Ration Health Care ◽  
Good Guide

AbstractMost health economists recommend that improvements in health be valued by asking members of the general public to imagine themselves in different states of health and then to think about how many years of life they would give up or what risk of death they would be willing to accept in order to be in full health. In this paper, I argue that preferences are not a very good guide to future experiences and a more suitable way to value health is to ask people in different states of health how they think and feel about their lives. Valuing health in this way may result in greater priority being given to mental health services. Whatever the precise implications, it is my contention that it is much better to ration health care according to real experiences rather than according to hypothetical preferences.

scholarly journals How Should We Use Age to Ration Health Care? Lessons from the Case of Kidney Transplantation

2010 ◽  
Vol 58 (10) ◽  
pp. 1980-1986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter P. Reese ◽  
Arthur L. Caplan ◽  
Roy D. Bloom ◽  
Peter L. Abt ◽  
Jason H. Karlawish
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Kidney Transplantation ◽  
Ration Health Care

Should we ration health care?

1989 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy S. Jecker
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Ration Health Care

scholarly journals Are physicians willing to ration health care? Conflicting findings in a systematic review of survey research

Health Policy ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 90 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 113-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Strech ◽  
Govind Persad ◽  
Georg Marckmann ◽  
Marion Danis
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Ration Health Care

Symbols, Rationality, and Justice: Rationing Health Care

1992 ◽  
Vol 18 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Callahan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Universal Health Care ◽  
Universal Health Insurance ◽  
Ration Health Care ◽  
Universal Health ◽  
Care System

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 of a program, if it is to be economically sound and politically feasible. Commentators have argued that reform of the health care system should come before any effort to ration. On the contrary, rationing and reform cannot be separated. The former is the key to the latter, just as rationing is the key to universal health insurance.

Must We Ration Health Care for the Elderly?

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Callahan
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Costs ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Aging Society ◽  
Medical Technologies ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
Ration Health Care ◽  
Elderly Health ◽  
Care Costs

For well over 20 years I have been arguing that someday we will have to ration health care for the elderly. I got started in the mid-1980s when I served on an Office of Technology Assessment panel to assess the likely impact on elderly health care costs of emergent, increasingly expensive medical technologies. They would, the panel concluded, raise some serious problems for the future of Medicare. The panel did not take up what might be done about those costs, but I decided to think about that question and wrote a book called, Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society.

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