The 'Rule of Rescue' in Medical Priority Setting: Ethical Plausibilities and Implausibilities

Bettina Schoene-Seifert ()
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Bettina Schoene-Seifert: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster

Rationality, Markets and Morals, 2009, vol. 0, issue 29

Abstract: Not infrequently, the so-called Rule of Rescue gets invoked as an allegedly self-evident constraint to the CBE-goal of maximizing health benefit with a given health budget. In this paper this constraint is critically analyzed. It will be argued that some of its implications are worth considering - but not the inherently vague Rule as such.

Keywords: health care; health ethics; prioritization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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