Can we say no?
Subtitle: the challenge of rationing health care
By: Henry J. Aaron and William B. Schwartz ; with Melissa A. Cox.
Contributors: Schwartz, William B., 1922-
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780815701200; 9780815701217
Subjects: Health care rationing -- Great Britain; Health care rationing -- United States; Medical care, Cost of -- Great Britain; Medical care, Cost of -- United States; Health Care Rationing -- Great Britain; Health Care Rationing -- United States; Health Expenditures -- Great Britain; Health Expenditures -- United States
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The promise and the problem; title: The British system; title: Matters of life and death; title: Quality of life; title: Diagnoses; title: Rationing and efficiency; title: Efficiency and inefficiency in British health care; title: Rationing health care in the United States.