Allocating Health Care Resources

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Better Health Care Through Rationing

   • Governor Richard D. Lamm

   Pages 1-19

3. The Ethics of Health Care Rationing as a Strategy of Cost Containment

   • Lawrence W. White, Mary Ellen Waithe

   Pages 21-54

4. Rationing, Rhetoric, and Rationality

   • Robert Baker

   Pages 55-84

5. An Evaluation of Clinton’s Health Care Proposal

   • George W. Rainbolt

   Pages 85-120

6. Health Care Allocation

   • John Douard

   Pages 121-144

7. Hypothetical Choice Approaches to Health Care Allocation

   • Madison Powers

   Pages 145-176

8. Sin Taxes as a Mechanism of Health Care Finance

   • Jeffrey P. Kahn

   Pages 177-202

9. The Injustice of Age Bias Against Children in Allocating Health Care

   • Loretta M. Kopelman

   Pages 203-219

10. Back Matter

    Pages 221-223

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In ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES, leading authorities and researchers expose the basic philosophical, ethical, and economic issues underlying the current health care debate. The contributors wrestle with such complicated issues as whether it is ethical to ration health care, the morality of the worldwide bias against children in allocating health care resources, whether sin taxes can be defended morally, and how to achieve a just health care system. The book also includes an insightful analysis of the Clinton health care reform plan.

ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES will be of interest to philosophers, health policy experts, medical ethicists, health professionals, and concerned citizens. It serves to clarify and illuminate the logic and rhetoric of health care reform, and so to help us all achieve a fair and equitable distribution of these precious resources.

• ethics
• health
• health care
• health policy
• morality

There is no better way to update oneself about the major issues of today's health care debate than to take up this excellent book. -Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal

• Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

  James M. Humber, Robert F. Almeder

Policies and ethics