Norman Daniels, Donald W Light, Ronald L Caplan

Benchmarks of Fairness for Health Care Reform

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

These benchmarks of fairness represent the first time that a concept in moral philosophy has been transposed into a usable policy tool for scoring alternative proposals. The authors show how concerned members of the public and policy makers can use the benchmarks by actually scoring four major proposals for health care reform that exemplify the most prevalent ideas of the 1990s in state and national debates. The authors pay particular attention to the problems of fairness in reforms that rely on competition. Although some reform ideas fare much better that others, all are found weak in establishing open, democratic procedures for deciding the limits of care. They also assess the current changes brought on by the rapid growth of managed care systems since the collapse of national reform.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 164mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780195102376
• ISBN-10: 0195102371
• Artikelnr.: 21860122

Autorenporträt

Norman Daniels, Ph.D., is Goldthwaite Professor of Philosophy and Medical Ethics at Tufts University. Donald W. Light, Ph.D., is Professor of Social and Behavioral Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Ronald L. Caplan, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Public Health at Richard Stockton State College.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Fairness and the Politics of Health Care reform
2: American Values and the Fairness of Health Care Reform
3: Benchmarks of Fairness
4: Using the Benchmarks to Score Insurance Reform
5: Using the Benchmarks to Score Health Care Reform
6: Reorganization or Reform? The Fairness of Current Trends
7: Prospects for Fair Reform
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