Setting Limits Fairly: Can we learn to share medical resources?

Norman Daniels and James E. Sabin
Additional contact information
Norman Daniels: Tufts University, USA
James E. Sabin: Harvard Medical School, USA

in OUP Catalogue from Oxford University Press

Abstract: The central idea for this book is that we lack consensus on principles for allocating resources and in the absence of such a consensus we must rely on a fair decision-making process for setting limits on health care. The authors characterize key elements of this process in a variety of health care contexts where such decisions are made- decisions about insurance coverage for new technologies, pharmacy benefit management, the design of physician incentives, contracting for mental health care by public agencies, etc.- and they connect the problem in the U.S. with the same problem in other countries. They provide a cogent analysis of the current situation, lucidly review the usual candidate solutions, and describe their own approach, which represents a clear advance in thinking. Their intended audience is international since the problem of limits cuts across types of health care systems whether or not they have universal coverage. Available in OSO: http://www.oxschol.com/oso/public/content/publichealthepidemiology/9780195149364/toc.html

Date: 2002
ISBN: 9780195149364
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (42)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oxp:obooks:9780195149364

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://ukcatalogue.o ... uct/9780195149364.do

Access Statistics for this book

More books in OUP Catalogue from Oxford University Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Economics Book Marketing ().