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Drawing the line : healthcare rationing and the cutoff problem / Philip M. Rosoff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosoff, Philip M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health care rationing--United States.
- Health care rationing.
- Medical care, Cost of--United States.
- Medical care, Cost of.
- Health Care Costs.
- Health Care Rationing.
- Consensus.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health Care Costs.
- Health Care Rationing.
- Consensus.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 312 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Healthcare rationing and the cutoff problem
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- American healthcare is neither efficient nor available to all, and is also the most expensive in the world. This work argues that rationing of healthcare could work and proposes an approach to ration fairly, effectively and generously.
- Contents:
- The problem
- Characteristics used as cutoff points
- Needs, wants, preferences and demands
- Prediction, prognosis and uncertainty
- Rules, rescues and miracles
- Luck.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 20, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-020658-6
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