Making Hard Choices: Rationing Health Care Services

Hicks talks about making choices to ration health care services. Rationing is about making choices. Because total resources are limited and the need and/or desire for goods and services is almost infinite, choices must be made regarding which goods and services shall be produced and consumed and whi...

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Published in:The Journal of legal medicine (Chicago. 1979) 2011-01, Vol.32 (1), p.27-50
Main Author: Hicks, Lanis L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Child
Child, Preschool
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Female
Forecasting
Gross Domestic Product
Health Care Costs - trends
Health care expenditures
Health care policy
Health Care Rationing - economics
Health Expenditures - trends
Health Policy - trends
Health services
Health Services Needs and Demand - organization & administration
Health Services Needs and Demand - trends
Humans
Infant
Infant Mortality - trends
Male
Middle Aged
Population Dynamics
Quality of Health Care - economics
Rationing
United States
Young Adult
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Summary:Hicks talks about making choices to ration health care services. Rationing is about making choices. Because total resources are limited and the need and/or desire for goods and services is almost infinite, choices must be made regarding which goods and services shall be produced and consumed and which goods and services will be forgone, and who shall receive the goods and services and who shall not. Rationing is an unavoidable part of any health care system. As with other sectors of any economy, no society has sufficient resources available to enable every one of its members to consume all health care services needed or desired. So, while rationing health care services is inevitable, the methods of rationing to be employed are diverse, complex, and controversial.
ISSN:0194-7648
1521-057X
DOI:10.1080/01947648.2011.550825