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

A rational look at health care rationing, from ethical, economic, psychological, and clinical perspectives.

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Main Author: Ubel, Peter A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1999.
Series:Basic bioethics.
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Table of 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.