Title: Can we say no? : the challenge of rationing health care /
Authors: Aaron, Henry J.; Schwartz, William B., 1922-2009.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Health Expenditures; Health Care Rationing; Health care rationing Great Britain.; Health care rationing United States.; Medical care, Cost of Great Britain.; Medical care, Cost of United States; Health Expenditures Great Britain.; Health Expenditures United States.; Health Care Rationing United States.; United States; United Kingdom
Abstract: "Examines the use of rationing as a means to curb health care spending, using the experience of Great Britain to highlight the promises and pitfalls of this approach"--Provided by publisher.
Contents: The promise and the problem -- The British system -- Matters of life and death -- Quality of life -- Diagnoses -- Rationing and efficiency -- Efficiency and inefficiency in British health care -- Rationing health care in the United States.