What's Your Life Worth Health Care Rationing... Who Lives Who Dies And Who D

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Publisher: FT Press; 1st edition (March 12, 2003) | ISBN-10: 0130671657 | PDF | 1,7 Mb | 256 pages

The debate of the decade won't be whether to ration, but how.This book introduces "rational rationing," which focusesresources on the medical interventions that provide thebiggest bang for the buck. Ration the right way, says DavidDranove, and rationing can save thousands of lives andbillions of dollars. Do it wrong, and it'll cause unnecessarypain, suffering, and death.

Right now, experts are calculating which diseases are worthcuring, which treatments are worth paying for, and whicharen't. They're putting a price on your life. This book tellsyou who they are, what they're up to, what they think yourlife's worth--and what to do about it.

Health care rationing has arrived--with a vengeance. Ifyou value your health, you'd better understand it--and beready. In this book, one of the world's leading health careeconomists offers a hard-nosed analysis of today's soaringhealth care costs--and shows how it will feel to be at themercy of a system that might choose not to cure you.

David Dranove previews the transition from today's adhoc rationing to an era of "rational rationing," in whicheconomic analysis of the value of human lives and specifictreatments is both explicit and routine. He assesses themixed results of rational rationing in Great Britain,Australia, and Oregon, where government decision makersstruggle with balancing science and politics in the face ofbudgets that place an alarmingly low value on life.

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