Rationing Is Not A Four Letter Word

Author : Philip M. Rosoff
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262027496

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Rationing Is Not a Four-Letter Word by Philip M. Rosoff Pdf

In this book, Philip Rosoff offers a provocative proposal for providing quality healthcare to all Americans and controlling the out-of-control costs that threaten the economy. He argues that rationing--often associated in the public's mind with such negatives as unplugging ventilators, death panels, and socialized medicine--is not a dirty word. A comprehensive, centralized, and fair system of rationing is the best way to distribute the benefits of modern medicine equitably while achieving significant cost savings.

Author : Philip M. Rosoff
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780262320771

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Rationing Is Not a Four-Letter Word by Philip M. Rosoff Pdf

A provocative argument that the best way to deliver high-quality healthcare to Americans is to institute a comprehensive and fair system of rationing. Most people would agree that the healthcare system in the United States is a mess. Healthcare accounts for a larger percentage of gross domestic product in the United States than in any other industrialized nation, but health outcomes do not reflect this enormous investment. In this book, Philip Rosoff offers a provocative proposal for providing quality healthcare to all Americans and controlling the out-of-control costs that threaten the economy. He argues that rationing—often associated in the public's mind with such negatives as unplugging ventilators, death panels, and socialized medicine—is not a dirty word. A comprehensive, centralized, and fair system of rationing is the best way to distribute the benefits of modern medicine equitably while achieving significant cost savings. Rosoff points out that certain forms of rationing already exist when resources are scarce and demand high: the organ transplant system, for example, and the distribution of drugs during a shortage. He argues that if we incorporate certain key features from these systems, healthcare rationing would be fair—and acceptable politically. Rosoff considers such topics as fairness, decisions about which benefits should be subject to rationing, and whether to compensate those who are denied scarce resources. Finally, he offers a detailed discussion of what an effective and equitable healthcare rationing system would look like.

Author : Linda Kelsey
Publisher : 5 Spot
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780446545129

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Fifty Is Not a Four-Letter Word by Linda Kelsey Pdf

In this heartwarming, spirited read about family and aging, big mid-life changes lead to big revelations for a woman who seemingly "has it all." As Hope Lyndhurst-Steele approaches her 50th birthday, she feels like she has it all: a top magazine job, a wonderful husband, a loving son, and tons of friends—yet fifty still feels like a four-letter word. When she returns to the office after her holiday break, she's shocked to be informed by senior management that she's out. As she starts spending her days at home, her relationship with her usually patient husband Jack starts to become strained, and her teenage son is more interested in chasing after a local single mom than spending his last year at home with her. And Hope's own mother, who she never got along with, has cheerily announced that she's got six months left to live. Hope is relieved when a solo trip to Paris wakes up her long-dormant libido, but when she returns, she finds that her husband is giving her more space than she'd like—he's decided to move out. As Hope wonders if she'll be able to make it to fifty-one with her sanity and her family intact, she discovers some interesting truths about herself and her age: that the best is yet to come.

Author : I. Glenn Cohen,Allison K. Hoffman,William M. Sage
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1233 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199366521

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The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Law by I. Glenn Cohen,Allison K. Hoffman,William M. Sage Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Law covers the breadth and depth of health law, with contributions from the most eminent scholars in the field. The Handbook paints with broad thematic strokes the major features of American healthcare law and policy, its recent reforms including the Affordable Care Act, its relationship to medical ethics and constitutional principles, how it compares to the experience ofother countries, and the legal framework for the patient experience. This Handbook provides valuable content, accessible to readers new to the subject, as well as to those who write, teach, practice, or make policy in health law.

Author : Cherie Rector,Mary Jo Stanley
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 1690 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781975123055

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Community and Public Health Nursing by Cherie Rector,Mary Jo Stanley Pdf

Community and Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Public’s Health, 10th Edition delivers an engaging introduction to the principles of public health nursing and employs a highly visual, student-friendly approach to guide students in developing the understanding and skills to confidently promote health, foster disease prevention, and protect at-risk populations — including older adults, homeless populations, veterans, refugees, and the LGBTQ community — whether practicing in acute care or community and public health settings. Extensively revised and featuring a wealth of real-world examples, this updated edition reflects today’s most prominent public health issues and empowers students to provide the most effective nursing care wherever they may choose to practice.

Author : Eliot Elisofon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Cookery
ISBN : UCAL:$B667525

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Food is a Four Letter Word by Eliot Elisofon Pdf

Author : Henry J. Aaron,William B. Schwartz
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815701209

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Can We Say No? by Henry J. Aaron,William B. Schwartz Pdf

"Examines the use of rationing as a means to curb health care spending, using the experience of Great Britain to highlight the promises and pitfalls of this approach"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Robert H. Blank
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0231514433

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The Price of Life by Robert H. Blank Pdf

How can America become a healthy nation, Blank asks, when it is beset by poverty, illiteracy, and crime? No new health care system can succeed unless or until the links between social problems and sickness are understood-and addressed. On the national level, Blank calls for a more aggressive redistribution of social and public health resources to the poor and elderly; at the same time, he describes sanctions that would encourage individuals to be more careful about their own health, and limit or change destructive behavior.

Author : Mark A. Hall,Nicholas Bagley,David Orentlicher,Mary Anne Bobinski
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 907 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781543804737

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The Law of Health Care Finance and Regulation by Mark A. Hall,Nicholas Bagley,David Orentlicher,Mary Anne Bobinski Pdf

The Law of Health Care Finance and Regulation is based on Part III, “Institutions, Providers, and the State,” of parent book Health Care Law and Ethics and adds additional coverage of a variety of issues that have shaped health care finance law. Integrating public health, financial and ethical issues, this casebook uses compelling case law, clear notes and comprehensive background information to illuminate the complex and dynamic field of health care law. Key Features: Based on material in Part III of the popular parent book, “Institutions, Providers, and the State,” along with coverage of duty to treat, hospital liability, managed care liability, and regulating access to drugs. Includes cases and material not found in the parent book on: • Judicial and administrative review of Medicare decisions. Certificate of need laws. Review immunity. Integrates public health and ethics issues and features clear notes that provide context, smooth transitions between cases, and background information. Website provides background materials, updates of important events, additional relevant topics and links to other resources on the Internet.

Author : James M. Humber,Robert F. Almeder
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781592594474

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Allocating Health Care Resources by James M. Humber,Robert F. Almeder Pdf

In ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES, leading authorities and researchers expose the basic philosophical, ethical, and economic issues underlying the current health care debate. The contributors wrestle with such complicated issues as whether it is ethical to ration health care, the morality of the worldwide bias against children in allocating health care resources, whether sin taxes can be defended morally, and how to achieve a just health care system. The book also includes an insightful analysis of the Clinton health care reform plan. ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES will be of interest to philosophers, health policy experts, medical ethicists, health professionals, and concerned citizens. It serves to clarify and illuminate the logic and rhetoric of health care reform, and so to help us all achieve a fair and equitable distribution of these precious resources.

Author : Nicholas Monsarrat
Publisher : London : Cassell
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Novelists, English
ISBN : UOM:39015005679892

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Life is a Four-letter Word by Nicholas Monsarrat Pdf

Author : Stan Cox
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781595588845

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Any Way You Slice It by Stan Cox Pdf

Rationing: it’s a word—and idea—that people often loathe and fear. Health care expert Henry Aaron has compared mentioning the possibility of rationing to “shouting an obscenity in church.” Yet societies in fact ration food, water, medical care, and fuel all the time, with those who can pay the most getting the most. As Nobel Prize–winning economist Amartya Sen has said, the results can be “thoroughly unequal and nasty.” In Any Way You Slice It, Stan Cox shows that rationing is not just a quaint practice restricted to World War II memoirs and 1970s gas station lines. Instead, he persuasively argues that rationing is a vital concept for our fragile present, an era of dwindling resources and environmental crises. Any Way You Slice It takes us on a fascinating search for alternative ways of apportioning life’s necessities, from the goal of “fair shares for all” during wartime in the 1940s to present-day water rationing in a Mumbai slum, from the bread shops of Cairo to the struggle for fairness in American medicine and carbon rationing on Norfolk Island in the Pacific. Cox’s question: can we limit consumption while assuring everyone a fair share? The author of Losing Our Cool, the much debated and widely acclaimed examination of air-conditioning’s many impacts, here turns his attention to the politically explosive topic of how we share our planet’s resources.

Author : United States. Economic Development Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Business and education
ISBN : UIUC:30112066687515

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1975 University Center Conference Proceedings by United States. Economic Development Administration Pdf

Author : John Algeo,Adele S. Algeo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521449715

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Fifty Years Among the New Words by John Algeo,Adele S. Algeo Pdf

This book, first published in 1992, is a unique repository of language use from 1941-91.

Author : Carol Johnson
Publisher : Gurze Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0936077379

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Self-Esteem Comes in All Sizes by Carol Johnson Pdf

By separating physiological fact from popular fiction, she helps people to understand that they are not to blame for their size; by focusing on health rather than weight loss, she explains how to set achievable goals.