Managed Care Organizations and the Rationing Problem

By and large, neither bioethicists nor economists have offered a satisfactory account of how managed care organizations should ration health care. Both disciplines would like to guarantee adequate care to all without defining adequacy. But it cannot be done. The more we rely on market forces to dist...

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Main Author: Baily, Mary Ann (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2003
In: The Hastings Center report
Year: 2003, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 34-42
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Summary:By and large, neither bioethicists nor economists have offered a satisfactory account of how managed care organizations should ration health care. Both disciplines would like to guarantee adequate care to all without defining adequacy. But it cannot be done. The more we rely on market forces to distribute health care, the more we need a national standard of care.
ISSN:1552-146X
Contains:Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3527912