Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting, unspools the mystery of what happened in those days, bringing the reader into a hospital fighting for its life and into a conversation about the most terrifying form
of health care rationing.
Not exact matches
It is not crazy to think that the incentives the British National
Health Service creates to provide less
care, and the stiff - upper - lip attitudes that lead Britons to tolerate queues and other forms
of explicit and implicit government
rationing all for the Greater Good, might influence where the elites draw that line.
-- and talks, and talks: I was interviewed for the Derek Gilbert podcast recently about Obamacare,
health care rationing, the danger
of bioethics to the vulnerable, animal rights, and human exceptionalism.
On Saturday night the Democrats narrowly passed a monstrosity
of a
health -
care bill that will cut doctors» Medicare payments, raise taxes on entrepreneurial medical device manufacturers, and ultimately lead to
rationing of care.
I have noticed lately that the political left, which most supports
health care rationing (and which, ironically, yells the loudest about HMO
care restrictions), argues disingenuously for the agenda through the time - tested tactic
of blatant misdirection.
If Republicans insist on making sure that the tax burden on the affluent stays at the levels
of the George W. Bush presidency, then we are eventually going to get single - payer, centrally
rationed health care.
Futile
Care: Futile care is a form of ad hoc health - care ration
Care: Futile
care is a form of ad hoc health - care ration
care is a form
of ad hoc
health -
care ration
care rationing.
Anesthesia staffing in many centers here is suboptimal for OB (no dedicated coverage, even in very busy centers)... that is a
care rationing - cost saving strategy on the part
of the
health authorities and provincial insurers.
Perhaps preserving a market - based, for - profit system
of health -
care rationing that excludes 20 %
of us is what Jesus meant when he said in Matthew 19:24, «it is easier for a camel to go through the eye
of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom
of God.»
At one point, he asked Mark Josefski, president
of the state Academy
of Family Physicians, whether New York would face the
rationing of health care under a single - payer system.
«I don't see any Republicans that have any interest in voting to
ration care for their constituents, raise costs to their constituents, and put the federal government in charge
of the best
health care system in the world,» said House Minority Leader John Boehner
of Ohio.
The field
of bioethics has addressed a broad swathe
of human inquiry, ranging from debates over the boundaries
of life (e.g. abortion, euthanasia), surrogacy, the allocation
of scarce
health care resources (e.g. organ donation,
health care rationing) to the right to refuse medical
care for religious or cultural reasons.
Certification under the standards involves four elements
of production: the origin
of the animals, and the
health care management, feed
ration and living conditions they receive throughout their lives.