Economics of NHS Cost-Saving and its Morality on the ‘Living Dead’
Emerson Jackson
Journal of Heterodox Economics, 2017, vol. 4, issue 1, 1-10
Abstract:
This article has been championed on account of the experience of (perceived) economic rationalization which seem to be the foremost of patients’ care as opposed to addressing distress to human existing well-being, while in a state of being tormented with agonizing news of prolonged ill health. Several considerations have been proposed as a way of addressing the need to rationalize resources in ensuring the long standing history of the NHS focus on ‘free health care’ is critically covered, but not in a way that destroys confidence on the ability of professionals to manifest ethical prudence in their acts of judgments about whether patients care is to be made immediate or prolonged on a waiting list. There is certainly serious impacts to be comprehended with in situation of economic rationality through services provided by the NHS; it is believed that tangible outcomes about definitive care for patients can be addressed collaboratively.
Keywords: Moral Economics; Cost Saving; Morality; Living Dead; NHS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D61 D64 I11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1515/jheec-2017-0001
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