Of Rescue and Responsibility: Learning To Live With Limits  

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Morreim, E. Haavi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy vol. 19 no. 5 (Oct. 1994), page 455-470.
Topik: Clinton Health Plan; Rationing; Rule of Rescue

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Universal access to health care is still a dream rather than a reality in the United States. This is partly because a rule of rescue, by impelling us to help people in nedd, urges us to ignore the limits of our health care policis wherever those limits would adversely affect a given individual. As the rule of rescue undermines whatever limits we set on health care entitlements, it can thwart the cost containment so essential to expanding acess. Rather than accept unlimited expense, we have thus far declined to universalize health care. The situations is exacerbated by an economic insulation shielding patients and physicians from exacerbated by an economic insulation shielding patients and physicians from the costs of care, prompting both to regard health care as free, an unlimited right. To reverse this costly entitlement mentality and place reasonable limits on rescue, patients must exercise greater personal responsibility for the costs of vtheir care by directly experiencing some of the economic consequences of their health care decisions. Several mechanisms are available to accomplish this goal without posing economics barriers to needed care or penalizing people for becoming ill.

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