Abstract
The age-rationing debate of fifteen years ago will inevitably reemerge as health care costs escalate. All age-rationing proposals should be judged in light of the current system of rationing health care by price in the U.S., and the resulting pattern of excess and deprivation. Age-rationing should be rejected as public policy, but recognized as a personal virtue of stewardship among the elderly.
MeSH terms
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Age Factors*
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Aged
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Cost Control
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Health Care Rationing* / economics
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Health Care Rationing* / ethics
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Health Care Rationing* / methods
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Health Services Accessibility / economics
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Health Services Accessibility / ethics
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Health Services Accessibility / statistics & numerical data
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Health Services for the Aged* / ethics
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Health Services for the Aged* / statistics & numerical data
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Humans
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Insurance, Health