Pre-Owned Setting Limits Fairly: Can We Learn to Share Medical Resources? (Hardcover) 019514936X 9780195149364

9780195149364. Pre-owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 208. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 208 p. The central idea for this book is that we lack consensus on principles for allocating resources and in the absence of such a consensus we must rely on a fair decision-making process for setting limits on health care. The authors characterize key elements of this process in a variety of health care contexts where such decisions are made- decisions about insurance coverage for new technologies, pharmacy benefit management, the design of physician incentives, contracting for mental health care by public agencies, etc.- and they connect the problem in the U.S. with the same problem in other countries. They provide a cogent analysis of the current situation, lucidly review the usual candidate solutions, and describe their own approach, which represents a clear advance in thinking. Their intended audience is international since the problem of limits cuts across types of health care systems whether or not they have universal coverage.