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Can we say no? : the challenge of rationing health care / Henry J. Aaron and William B. Schwartz ; with Melissa Cox.
- Title
- Can we say no? : the challenge of rationing health care / Henry J. Aaron and William B. Schwartz ; with Melissa Cox.
- Author
- Aaron, Henry J.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2005.
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- Additional Authors
- Schwartz, William B., 1922-2009.
- Description
- xii, 199 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Examines the use of rationing as a means to curb health care spending, using the experience of Great Britain to highlight the promises and pitfalls of this approach"--Provided by publisher.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books.
- Subject
- Health Care Rationing
- Health Care Rationing > United States
- Health Expenditures
- Health Expenditures > Great Britain
- Health Expenditures > United States
- Health care rationing > Great Britain
- Health care rationing > United States
- Medical care, Cost of > Great Britain
- Medical care, Cost of > United States
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The promise and the problem -- The British system -- Matters of life and death -- Quality of life -- Diagnoses -- Rationing and efficiency -- Efficiency and inefficiency in British health care -- Rationing health care in the United States.
- ISBN
- 0815701209 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0815701217 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780815701200 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780815701217 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2005024433
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library