Pricing life : why it's time for health care rationing / Peter A. Ubel.
Material type: TextSeries: Basic bioethicsPublisher: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2000Description: xix, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0262210169
- 9780262210164
- 362.1 21
- RA410.5 .U533 2000
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cost-effectiveness and the controversial necessity of health care rationing. -- Rationing according to cost-effectiveness: explicit, quantifiable, and unacceptable? ; The politics of defining health care rationing ; The necessity of rationing health care ; The challenge of measuring community values in ways appropriate for making rationing decisions ; How do people want to ration health care? Balancing cost-effectiveness and fairness -- Cost-effectiveness and bedside rationing: do two wrongs make a right?. -- The case against bedside rationing ; Recognizing bedside rationing ; Linguistic confusion about bedside rationing ; The unbearable rightness of bedside rationing -- The future of cost-effectiveness analysis and health care rationing. -- Future possibilities for improving how cost-effectiveness analysis incorporates public rationing preferences ; The future of cost-effectiveness analysis and health care rationing -- --
Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Cost-Effectiveness and the Controversial Necessity of Health Care Rationing -- 1. Rationing According to Cost-Effectiveness: Explicit, Quantifiable, and Unacceptable? -- 2. The Politics of Defining Health Care Rationing -- 3. The Necessity of Rationing Health Care -- 4. The Challenge of Measuring Community Values in Ways Appropriate for Making Rationing Decisions -- 5. How Do People Want to Ration Health Care? Balancing Cost-Effectiveness and Fairness -- II. Cost-Effectiveness and Bedside Rationing: Do Two Wrongs Make a Right? -- 6. The Case Against Bedside Rationing -- 7. Recognizing Bedside Rationing -- 8. Linguistic Confusion about Bedside Rationing -- 9. The Unbearable Rightness of Bedside Rationing -- III. The Future of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Health Care Rationing -- 10. Future Possibilities for Improving How Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Incorporates Public Rationing Preferences -- 11. The Future of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Health Care Rationing -- References -- Index.
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