The idea of rationing is an uncomfortable one
Why We Must Ration Health Care
By PETER SINGER
Published: July 15, 2009
This is such a complex topic, and we’ll never come to a mutually satisfactory agreement as a country divided equally along ideologically-defined, intellectually oversimplified partisan lines. Find one Princeton professor’s opinion at the link above.
In summary, it seems that he believes it’s morally and rationally fair to allow anyone to pay as much as they want to prolong their own life or to increase their own quality of health, as long as they’re also allowed to experience the concomitant level of expenditure. It’s simply not worth it in the aggregate for the public actor to pay for care that is not justifiable by cost-effectiveness analysis.
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- 17 July 2009 / 11:33 am
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