What's your life worth?
Subtitle: health care rationing-- who lives? who dies? who decides?
By: David Dranove.
Publisher: FT Prentice Hall
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Health care rationing -- economics -- United States.; Cross-Cultural Comparison -- United States.; Value of Life -- economics -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- -- ch. 1.; title: Is it nice to ration? --; title: Putting a price on your life -- -- The; title: pressure to ration --; title: Cutting to the chase --; title: Rationing drugs down under -- -- The; title: National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) -- -- The; title: beta-interferon controversy --; title: Medicine versus economics --; title: Endnotes -- -- ch. 2.; title: Defending rationing in principle --; title: Rationing and toy shopping --; title: Are we wasting money on health care? --; title: Moral hazard -- -- The; title: RAND study --; title: Demand inducement --; title: Bad buys in health care -- -- The; title: Weinberg Variations --; title: Defending rationing --; title: Endnotes -- -- ch. 3.; title: Rationing around the world --; title: Rationing in Germany --; title: Controlling drug costs in Germany --; title: If it looks like rationing ... ---; title: Rationing in Canada -- -- The; title: consequences of waiting lists -- -- The; title: future of rationing in Canada --; title: Rationing in England --; title: Rationing elsewhere in the world --; title: Endnotes -- -- ch. 4.; title: Rationing in the U.S. health care marketplace --; title: Rationing through the market mechanism : the uninsured in the United States --; title: Attempts to provide universal coverage --; title: Rationing among insured Americas --; title: Government-sponsored rationing in the United States -- -- A -- brief history of managed care; title: Whither rationing in America? --; title: Enough is enough --; title: Endnotes -- -- ch. 5.; title: Doing cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit research --; title: Some background on CEA --; title: Is it valid to use CEA for health care? --; title: Doing CEA/CBA --; title: Measuring costs --; title: Discounting --; title: Is CEA/CBA research valid? --; title: CBA/CEA in practice --; title: Endnotes -- -- ch. 6.; title: Measuring the quality of life --; title: Using rating scales to measure health states --; title: Working with QALYs --; title: Putting QALYs into practice --; title: All QALYs ae equal --; title: Measuring QALYs --; title: How fo your QALY scores measure up? -- -- The; title: quality of well-being (QWB) scale --; title: Concerns about QALYs --; title: Discrimination and QALYs --; title: Limitations of QALY surveys --; title: Summing up CEA/CBA methods --; title: What about the PSA test? --; title: Endnotes -- -- ch. 7. The; title: Oregon Plan --; title: Rationing in Oregon -- -- The; title: story of Coby Howard --; title: Toward a rational rationing plan -- -- The; title: creation of the Oregon Health Plan -- -- The; title: Oregon plan and HMOs --; title: Creating the list --; title: More protests -- -- The dt performance of the rationing plan; title: Oregon ten years later --; title: Where do we draw the line? --; title: Endnotes -- -- ch. 8.; title: What is your life worth --; title: Willingness to pay, human capital, and intrinsic value --; title: Pricing life in the real world -- -- The; title: cost-of-illness (COI) approach --; title: Using surveys to put a price on good health --; title: Some WTP measures --; title: Willingness to pay for life --; title: How useful are WTP measures? --; title: Statistical versus identified lives -- -- The; title: economic approach to valuing statistical lives --; title: Other evidence on the value of life --; title: What is your life worth? --; title: Value of a QALY --; title: Responding to Mr. Mortimer -- -- The; title: bottom line --; title: Endnotes -- -- ch. 9.; title: Rising costs and rational rationing -- -- The; title: health care budget "crisis" -- -- The; title: drain on the U.S. economy --; title: Targeting technology -- -- The; title: fallacy of cost containment -- -- The; title: steady drumbeat of rational rationing --; title: Can patients be rational? --; title: who should ration --; title: Rational rationing in the public sector --; title: Rational rationing and managed care -- -- The; title: real obstacles --; title: Rational rationing in the 21st century --; title: Endnotes --; title: Index.