Pricing life : why it's time for health care rationing / Peter A. Ubel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ubel, Peter A.

Series:

Basic bioethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health care rationing.

Medical care--Cost effectiveness.

Medical care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 208 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Ubel has made important contributions to our understanding of how people make choices about health care and of the factors that enter into these decisions." - Wallace F. Berman, M.D., New England Journal of Medicine.

Contents:

Cost-effectiveness and the controversial necessity of health care rationing. Rationing according to cost-effectiveness: explicit, quantifiable, and unacceptable? ; The politics of defining health care rationing ; The necessity of rationing health care ; The challenge of measuring community values in ways appropriate for making rationing decisions ; How do people want to ration health care? Balancing cost-effectiveness and fairness

Cost-effectiveness and bedside rationing: do two wrongs make a right?. The case against bedside rationing ; Recognizing bedside rationing ; Linguistic confusion about bedside rationing ; The unbearable rightness of bedside rationing

The future of cost-effectiveness analysis and health care rationing. Future possibilities for improving how cost-effectiveness analysis incorporates public rationing preferences ; The future of cost-effectiveness analysis and health care rationing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-197) and index.

"A Bradford book."

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-28534-7

0-585-20974-X

OCLC:

44964160