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Author Aaron, Henry J.

Title Can we say no? : the challenge of rationing health care / Henry J. Aaron and William B. Schwartz ; with Melissa A. Cox
Published Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description xii, 199 pages ; 24 cm
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Health care rationing -- Great Britain.
Health care rationing -- United States.
Medical care, Cost of -- Great Britain.
Medical care, Cost of -- United States.
Health Care Rationing.
Health Expenditures.
SUBJECT United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Author Schwartz, William B., 1922-2009.
LC no. 2005024433
ISBN 9780815701200 (cloth : alk. paper)
0815701209 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780815701217
0815701217