Rationing America's Medical Care: The Oregon Plan and Beyond
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Rationing America's Medical Care: The Oregon Plan and Beyond
By (Author) Martin A. Strosberg
Edited by M. Wiener
Edited by Robert Baker
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Brookings Institution
1st March 1992
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Health systems and services
362.10973
Physical Properties
Paperback
252
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
454g
Description
As America's struggle with the dual problem of exploding health costs and assuring access to health care for the uninsured, health care rationing has moved to the centre of the public policy debate. A prime example of this is the intense public discussion surrounding the proposal by the state of Oregon to provide universal health care but to ration which diagnoses and treatments will be covered. Focusing largely on the Oregon proposal, this volume examines a wide range of ethical, methodological, legal and political issues that must be addressed by any serious programme of health care reform.
Author Bio
"Martin A. Strosberg is associate professor in the Graduate Management Institute at Union College. Joshua M. Wiener is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at Brookings. He is the coauthor of Sharing the Burden: Strategies for Public and Private Long-Term Care Insurance (Brookings, 1994) and Caring for the Disabled Elderly: Who Will Pay (Brookings, 1988). Robert Baker is director of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in the Union Graduate College and professor of bioethics and philosophy at Union College. I. Alan Fein is senior medical director of research and development at Executive Health Resources. Previously, he was a research professor in the College of Public Health at the University of Florida."
