Rationing Alternatives for Medical Care

Rationing Medical Care: an Economist's Perspective

In this essay, prepared for a symposium in Economics and Philosophy . I identify some issues that arise in trying to bring the kind of economics I normally practice to this subject. I proceed by examining the parallels and differences between allocating medical care and several other allocation problems, starting with the distribution of income generally and then in the more specific context of...

Topics in medical economics: health care rationing.

Rationing medical education.

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of rationing in medical education. Medical education is expensive and there is a limit to that which governments, funders or individuals can spend on it. Rationing involves the allocation of resources that are limited. This paper discussed the pros and cons of the application of rationing to medical education and the different forms of rationing ...

Rationing Expensive Lifesaving Medical Resources

Rationing and critical care medicine.

As healthcare expenditures have continued to grow in the United States and elsewhere, the demand for cost-cutting measures has increased. This has led many to wonder if we are, in fact, rationing health care. Critical care is characterized by very high expenditures on a relatively few number of patients, many of whom do not survive, and it is therefore a likely place where rationing could occur...