Rationing America's Medical Care: The Oregon Plan and Beyond

by Robert Baker

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As Americans struggle with the dual problems of exploding health care costs and ensuring access to health care for the uninsured, health care rationing has moved to the center of the public policy debate. A prime example of this is the intense public discussion surrounding the proposal by the state of Oregon to provide universal health care at a price: the explicit rationing of which diagnoses and treatments will be covered. Focusing largely on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815781970
• ISBN13: 9780815781974
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"