Dealing with Limited Resources
- 21 July 1988
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 319 (3) , 171-173
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198807213190310
Abstract
IN the spring of 1987, the Joint Ways and Means Committee of the Oregon legislature faced a painful choice. The Division of Adult and Family Services, charged with administering the state Medicaid program, framed the options for the next two years. During the next biennium — the basic funding period in Oregon — Medicaid could either extend its funding for basic health care to include about 1500 persons not covered previously, or continue to fund a program of organ transplantation (bone marrow, heart, liver, and pancreas) for a projected 34 patients.In a dramatic example of the type of painful . . .Keywords
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