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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 July 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262027496.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262320764
A provocative argument that the best way to deliver high-quality healthcare to Americans is to institute a comprehensive and fair system of rationing. Most people would agree that the healthcare system in the United States is a mess. Healthcare accounts for a larger percentage of gross domestic product in the United States than in any other industrialized nation, but health outcomes do not reflect this enormous investment. In this book, Philip Rosoff offers a provocative proposal for providing quality healthcare to all Americans and controlling the out-of-control costs that threaten the economy. He argues that rationing—often associated in the public's mind with such negatives as unplugging ventilators, death panels, and socialized medicine—is not a dirty word. A comprehensive, centralized, and fair system of rationing is the best way to distribute the benefits of modern medicine equitably while achieving significant cost savings. Rosoff points out that certain forms of rationing already exist when resources are scarce and demand high: the organ transplant system, for example, and the distribution of drugs during a shortage. He argues that if we incorporate certain key features from these systems, healthcare rationing would be fair—and acceptable politically. Rosoff considers such topics as fairness, decisions about which benefits should be subject to rationing, and whether to compensate those who are denied scarce resources. Finally, he offers a detailed discussion of what an effective and equitable healthcare rationing system would look like.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 July 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9796.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262320764
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 July 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9796.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262320764
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 July 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9796.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262320764
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 July 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9796.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262320764
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 July 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9796.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262320764
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 July 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9796.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262320764
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 July 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9796.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262320764
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 July 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9796.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262320764
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 July 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9796.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262320764
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 July 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9796.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262320764
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 July 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9796.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262320764
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 July 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9796.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262320764