Medical rationing as a health care strategy

Abstract

Notes the problem of rising health care costs in the USA. Considers a highly controversial solution to this problem, which is to consider health care as a scarce resource and to ration access to it. Whether rationing is done by age, ability to pay, or a cost‐benefit analysis, the very concept contradicts the US belief in the right to health care. Other industrialized countries currently ration health care through a National Health Insurance Plan. Points out that, in the USA, individual states are beginning to consider health care rationing to combat shrinking budgets and increasing demand for services.

Citation

Wayland, G. and Kleiner, B.H. (1997), "Medical rationing as a health care strategy", Health Manpower Management, Vol. 23 No. 6, pp. 223-228. https://doi.org/10.1108/09552069710187163