BACKGROUND Resource scarcity in health care is a universal challenge. In high-income settings, bedside rationing is commonly discussed and debated as a means to addressing scarcity. However, little is known about physicians' experiences in resource-limited contexts in low- income countries. Here we describe physicians' experiences regarding scarcity of resources, bedside rationing, use of vario...

3 List of Papers 5 Abbreviations 7 Background 9 Introduction 9 Priority setting and rationing – why and what it is 10 Aspects of priority setting and rationing 12 Priority setting at different levels 14 Vertical and horizontal priority setting 14 Explicit and implicit priority setting 15 Central components in priority setting 16 Facts 16 Values 17 Process 18 Synthesis 20 Priority setting in Swe...

Allen and Hellwig (A-H hereafter) (1984a) show for a market where firms compete in prices with capacity constraints that as the number of firms increases, Nash equilibria (in pure or mixed strategies) converge in distribution to a (perfectly) competitive price, but monopoly prices persist for any number of firms. In other words, the supports of the equilibrium mixed strategies do not necessaril...

Several ethicists have defended the use of responsibility-based criteria in healthcare rationing. Yet this article we outline two challenges to implementation rationing policies. These are, namely, that responsibility for past behavior can diminish as an agent changes, and blame come apart from responsibility. suggest it is more difficult hold someone responsible health related actions than pro...

Abstract The pandemic-induced economic crisis has seen a massive increase in savings as households could not spend their income. last time that consumers were seriously rationed was during the Second World War. This article models behaviour of War years and its immediate aftermath Ireland, Sweden, US UK. Savings held liquid form and, once over rationing eased, consumption boom transpired. Howev...

this article discusses what ethicists have called “unacceptable trade-offs” in health policy choices related to universal health coverage (uhc). since the fiscal space is constrained, trade-offs need to be made. but some trade-offs are unacceptable on the path to universal coverage. unacceptable choices include, among other examples from low-income countries, to expand coverage for services wit...