Rationing in Medicine : Ethical, Legal and Practical Aspects

by Breyer, F.

• ISBN13: 9783540427827
• ISBN10: 3540427821
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: SPRINGER

Summary

The present volume is the result of a conference devoted to the topic of Rationing in Medicine, which was organized by the EuropAische Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer Entwicklungen Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler GmbH. One of the purposes of this volume is to contribute to a clarification of the concept of rationing and its possible implementations and thereby to help the participants in the debate to avoid further unnecessary confusion. Authors from the disciplines of medicine, philosophy, economics and law as well as practitioners of health care itself and from the field of health-care financing have contributed to this volume.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
F. Breyer
H. Kliemt
F. Thiele
I Rationing in international Perspective
Rationing: Distribution, Limitation, or Denial? - Against Conceptual Confusion in the Debate about Health Care System	7	(14)
S. Hahn
A Note on the Semantics of Rationing as Limitation	21	(10)
C. Schultheiss
Prioritizing and Rationing	31	(8)
H.-H. Raspe
The Practice of Rationing Health Care in the United Kingdom	39	(14)
D. J. Hunter
Comment on Professor David Hunter's Talk	53	(6)
B. Schone-Seifert
II Practices of Rationing in Germany
Rationing in Intensive Care Medicine	59	(16)
M. Imhoff
Panel: Global Budgets and Rationing
Rationing is inevitable: Modern Medicine as a Victim of its own Success	75	(2)
W. Kramer
Rationing in Medicine: Some Issues in the Light of Economic Theory	77	(4)
P. Zweifel
Rationing in Medicine: Cost Containment versus Quality Improvement	81	(6)
C. Szymkowiak
III Rationing, Ethics, and the Law
The Impact of the German Costitution on Rationing in Medicine	87	(8)
J. Taupitz
Rationing Yes, Politics No. For a Right-based Approach in Rationing Medical Goods	95	(10)
M. Baurmann
Rationing - Basic Philosophical Principles and the Pratice	105	(16)
W. Lubbe
IV The Future of Rationing
Complementarity of Private and Public Insurance	121	(6)
J. Fritze
Rationing of Health Care and the Compementarity of Private and Public Insurance	127	(4)
A. Wambach
Summary Thoughts	131
H. Kliemt