Health Care Rationing

Health Care Rationing: Why the "R" Word is a Red Herring

N. E. Marsden | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics


N. E. Marsden

it is ludicrous to imply that private insurance companies don't ration care by flat-out refusing procedures that people genuinely need or desperately want.

Better Health Care Through Rationing

Gov. Dick Lamm | Posted 11.24.2009 | Denver


Gov. Dick Lamm

Rationing is the price we must pay for our creative success. It is the ugly child of the marriage of our ingenuity and our egalitarianism.

Poll: Majority Dismiss Right Wing Healthcare Attacks As "Scare Tactics"

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics


Wow, this is cause for cautious optimism: Buried in a new Bloomberg poll is evidence that solid majorities dismiss all the leading right wing health c...

Republican Lawmakers Gin Up Fear Of Rationing, Can't Offer Any Proof

CNN | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics


Surrounded by a group of parents clutching pictures of their special needs children, two Republican members of Congress stood in front of the Capitol ...

Dead Kids

August J. Pollak | Posted 10.16.2009 | Comedy


August J. Pollak

How awesome are YOUR insurance rations?

Wall Street Journal Reports On Health Care Rationing By US Insurers

Rob Kall | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media


Rob Kall

It does not surprise me that the media has failed so miserably to accurately put the American health care system's dismal performance and outrageous cost into an international context.

Hey Sarah Palin! Why Not Actually Read Dr. Emanuel's article on rationing limited resources?

Lennard Davis | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics


Lennard Davis

While Sarah Palin may not like the idea that any citizen should be denied health care, how would she suggest we distribute the precious few kidneys available to a long list of people on dialysis?

Rationing Care by Driving Doctors Out of Practice

Francine Hardaway | Posted 09.05.2009 | Home


Francine Hardaway

Rationing will happen with or without reform. At least with reform you may be rationed by an objective committee, rather than by having the last doctor in your town go out of business.

Part 2: Un-Spinning Healthcare Reform

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics


Kimberly Krautter

The problem isn't a few highly specialized physicians as much as it is the gaping maw between the few zip codes where they practice and the rest of the country. This is the real class warfare.

Stop Distorting the Truth about End of Life Care

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics


Rep. Earl Blumenauer

GOP leadership has been gravely distorting the truth and misrepresenting the facts about the bipartisan effort for the Life Sustaining Treatment Preferences Act.

Jason Linkins

Louisiana Republican Warns Of Organ Rationing That Already Occurs

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics


Just a little while ago, GOP Rep. Steve Scalise from Louisiana was riven with concern over the terrifying prospect of government intervention in healt...

At Least We All Now Know What the Health Care Reform Debate Is About

Stanton Peele | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics


Stanton Peele

The following five developments made clear that America is not prepared for what it must do in regard to health care reform.

Health Care Rationing? The US Has Been Rationing Care for Years

Sarah Lovinger | Posted 08.03.2009 | Living


Sarah Lovinger

I am not sure in which alternate reality these Conservative nay-sayers live, but as a primary care doctor working with uninsured patients, I can assure you that health care has been rationed in the US for years.

The Coming Ethical Crisis: Oxygen Rationing

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 07.28.2009 | Politics


Jacob M. Appel

One of the questions that will face our society when a future pandemic proves more deadly is how our public health authorities ought to allocate ventilators.

NYT Condemns Anti-Rationing Health Care Arguments: "Not Substantive"

New York Times | David Leonhardt | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics


More to the point: Rationing! As in: Wait, are you talking about rationing medical care? Access to medical care is a fundamental right. And rationing...