Rationing, overtreatment, MD-assisted suicide. (medical care rationing)
From: HealthFacts
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Date: 11/1/1993
Medical care rationing: The topic is both agonizing and urgent. U.S. annual spending for medical care is rapidly approaching $1 trillion, and the Clinton health plan will add the 37 million currently uninsured Americans to the ranks of people with access to medical treatment. Like it or not, rationing is part of any medical care system. "We already have rationing," said Norman C. Fost, M.D., M.P.H., director of the program in medical ethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. ...
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