Health care is a finite resource and should be viewed as such, one doc argues. June 22, 2009— -- For a number of years I have enjoyed an invitation to submit opinion essays for consideration for ...

It is perhaps the most polarizing word in the health care debate: rationing. Countless conservative opponents of the Democrat-backed health care reform plans have used the word. Their argument goes ...

Governments should consider imposing World War II-style policies of rationing on goods such as food, fuel and clothing in order to fight climate change, according to a newly published academic paper.

When a vaccine for Covid-19 becomes available — and the supply is sure to be limited — who should get it? That depends on who you ask. The Harris Poll released survey data in August that showed how ...

Bryan Dowd and Kirk Allison are to be thanked for their lengthy treatise on the word “rationing.” It is a term whose interpretation economists have left to politicians – not invariably models of ...

Robert Wright notes that "we already ration health care; we just let the market do the rationing." This is a true point made by the proponents of health care reform. But I'm not sure why it's supposed ...

The Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps is a charitable organization that brings free health care to regions of the globe where medical care is scarce or unaffordable—such as parts of Tennessee, ...

George J. Annas ( [email protected]) is chair of the Department of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health and author of Worst Case Bioethics: Death, ...

Rationing today is seen as a sign that things have gone very wrong. In HBO’s The Last of Us—where humanity has been decimated by a fungal infection that turns people into violent meat sacs—quarantine ...

ObamaCare supporters are now waging a high-profile public relations campaign to make medical rationing palatable to the general public. The latest front is the opinion pages of the New York Times, ...

After collapsing at his job and spending a week in a hospital, Thomas Strathmann of Bozeman, Mont., left with a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes and two boxes of insulin. He was told they would last “a ...

Despite promises by pharmaceutical companies to limit insulin price hikes, the life-saving drug remains out of reach for many patients with diabetes — with fatal, or near-fatal, results. As part of ...