Can rationing possibly be rational?

Can rationing of cardiological services be rational?

In the United Kingdom there is a pervading perception that provision of health resources has not kept up with the availability of effective clinical procedures. By international standards expenditure on health services expressed as a percentage of gross domestic product remains low.' To clinicians the system feels increasingly tight financially because resources are not available to meet expres...

“Dysfunctional Identities” Can Be Rational

Understanding the nature and sources of human identity is an important objective in the study of a variety of social problems. Scholarly and popular writing on the cultural determinants of economic disadvantage underscores this point. Some analysts (e.g., Edward Banfield 1970, Thomas Sowell 1994, John McWhorter 2000, and John Ogbu 2003, to name a varied few) have hypothesized that a causal conn...

It's time for rational rationing.

Rational requesting or rationing testing?

T he UK government has acknowledged that up to 70% of medical diagnoses now rely on pathology laboratory analyses. One consequence of such reliance is an ever increasing laboratory workload, usually, in National Health Service laboratories, at a rate in excess of the financial resources to support it. It follows that this demand can only be serviced by increased efficiency. One area where deman...

Can nature possibly be as absurd as it seemed

A hardware implementation of the mathematical algorithm for quantum mechanics is outlined. This “high-tech” enterprise is based on “interactive holography”, an operational entourage that makes quantum mechanics a “normal” science. The holographic reference beam introduces an additional coordinate of phase leading to the description of states by the four-component vectors: |ψ>. Quantum mechanics...