Rationing of Health Care: Inevitable and Desirable
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Rationing of health care: inevitable and desirable.
Americans find certain issues in public policy much easier to ignore than to confront. The necessity of rationing health care is one such issue. Because Americans believe that access to health care is a basic right,1 we, as a society, have avoided facing the hard fact that it is not feasible to provide, on demand, all needed medical procedures to every individual who could potentially benefit f...
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عنوان ژورنال: University of Pennsylvania Law Review
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0041-9907
DOI: 10.2307/3312422