Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: One of the most controversial issues in many health care systems is health care rationing. In essence, rationing refers to the denial of - or delay in - access to scarce goods and services in health care, despite the existence of medical need...read more

Product Description: With medical costs skyrocketing and more Americans lacking adequate care, the debate over health care reform has escalated nationwide. Both state and federal policy makers are scrambling for a solution.

Product Description: Although managed health care is a hot topic, too few discussions focus on health care rationing--who lives and who dies, death versus dollars. In this book physician and bioethicist Peter A. Ubel argues that physicians, health insurance companies, managed care organizations, and governments need to consider the cost-effectiveness of many new health care technologies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Rationing or priority setting occurs in all health care systems. Doctors, managers, and politicians are involved in making decisions on how to use scarce resources and which groups and patients should receive priority. These decisions may be informed by the results of medical research and cost effectiveness studies but they also involve the use of judgement and experience...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is a comprehensive and fully up-to-date account of what it means to try to quantify health in distributing resources for health care. It offers an elegant new approach to comparing the costs and benefits of medical interventions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The competition for limited health care resources is intensifying. We urgently need an acceptable method for deciding how they should be allocated. But the goods that health care produces are of very different kinds. Health care can extend the lives of children and of older people...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Following the Governments health reforms in 1991 rationing has been put firmly on the agenda. This book identifies and clarifies the numerous political and ethical issues surrounding rationing in healthcare. Drawing upon international examples it offers a critical overview of the approaches to rationing and makes practical proposals for its management...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The population is rapidly aging while access to proper and affordable medical treatment is becoming more and more limited. This impasse challenges us to make ethical decisions regarding the rationing of health care. Arguing that de facto rationing is already taking place due to economic necessity and that proper management of this rationing is essential to the fair and ethical treatment of all seeking care, Choosing Who's to Live directly addresses one of the most challenging moral questions of our day...read more

Product Description: This is a critical analysis of the issues raised by health care rationing and a guide to policy options. There is huge interest in the subject of resource allocation in health care and the associated process of priority setting, but the issues necessarily cross boundaries of disciplines and interest groups...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Forming an unlikely friendship, beloved daughter Anna Kearney and neglected rich girl Mary Rose embark on a journey from the serene countryside of Ireland to the glittering nightclubs of New York and war-torn Europe. Original.