Setting Limits Fairly: Can We Learn to Share Medical Resources? (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195149364)

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.

Author: Norman Daniels, James Sabin
ISBN-10: 019514936X
ISBN-13: 9780195149364
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 02/14/2002
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.50w x 0.80d