Principles of justice in health care rationing

Principles of justice in health care rationing.

This paper compares and contrasts three different substantive (as opposed to procedural) principles of justice for making health care priority-setting or "rationing" decisions: need principles, maximising principles and egalitarian principles. The principles are compared by tracing out their implications for a hypothetical rationing decision involving four identified patients. This decision has...

Rationing health care in Canada.

Canada has been able to develop a fairly successful system of healthcare rationing by balancing the conflicting concerns of equal access and cost efficiency, federal funding and provincial control, and public sector management and private sector provision. Financial constraints limit the kinds of services included within the notion of equal access, however, forcing healthcare providers to make ...

Rationing Health Care in Europe – France

Rationing without justice: children and the American health system.

moreover, the federal government and some states, responding to the growing economic burdens created by the program, frequently aim their budget cutting knives at expenditures on women and children, who are without the political defenses needed to fight back. The United States offers children no floor of health care decency as it does for the elderly through the Medicare program. There is no bo...

Ethical issues in health care rationing.

As known, to finish this book, you may not need to get it at once in a day. Doing the activities along the day may make you feel so bored. If you try to force reading, you may prefer to do other entertaining activities. But, one of concepts we want you to have this book is that it will not make you feel bored. Feeling bored when reading will be only unless you don't like the book. ethical issue...