Tag: rationing
Blog Posts (4)
July 25, 2012
Rationing at the Bedside: Dr. Roger Barrow on Ethical Issues in Family Medicine
We are pleased to share with you a guest blog post from Roger Barrow, MD. Dr. Barrow is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and practices at the Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez, CA.…
April 28, 2010
Ethics of Rationing End-of-Life Care: Can We Ever Agree?
A PBS forum with Arthur Caplan and others asked the BIG question about rationing end-of-life care, and perhaps rationing in general: can we as a society ever agree as to what the rational goals of health care can be at the end of life?…
September 25, 2009
Former Governor Embraces the "R-Word"--And It's About Time!
Former Governor Dick Lamm has come out to do something that most of us realists in the healthcare debate have done long ago: acknowledged that the “r-word”–rationing–is not a dirty word, and in fact, is something we already do in our health care system.…
November 24, 2008
Is it Bad to Ration? Callahan Says No.
In the NYT health blog, the New Old Age, Jane Gross blogs about Dan Callahan’s recent commentary on the virtues of rationing healthcare, particularly for the Medicare system.…