Setting Limits Fairly: Can We Learn to Share Medical Resources?

by Norman Daniels

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019514936X
• ISBN13: 9780195149364
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"