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Managed Care Organizations and the Rationing Problem
Author(s) -
BAILY MARY ANN
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3527912
Subject(s) - managed care , rationing , health care rationing , health care , business , actuarial science , economics , nursing , public relations , political science , medicine , economic growth
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.