Rationing Medical Care -- A Comparative Perspective

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Abstract
Two articles in this issue of the Journal address how the United States rations medical care as compared with other countries. The specter of medical rationing -- the deliberate withholding of potentially beneficial care -- is usually invoked in health policy discussions as a dreaded consequence of either the containment of soaring medical expenditures or the expansion of health insurance coverage. The implication is that rationing is something that has not yet occurred, but might. The reality is that rationing occurs in some form in every country, including the United States. It is less evident in the United States than . . .

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