Benchmarks of Fairness for Health Care Reform

Zusatztext provides a framework that facilitates debate and understanding and clarifies what social values are at stake in the complex details of health policy Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This book translates the universal moral concept of fairness into specific criteria by which to measure which reform proposals are more fair and why. It pinpoints what market-based reforms need to do to be fair to everyone. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 References ...

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• Autori: Ronald L Caplan, Ronald L. Caplan, Ronald L. (Assistant Professor of Public Health Caplan, Caplan Ronald L., Norman Daniels, Norman (Goldthwaite Professor of Philosop Daniels, Norman (Goldthwaite Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Medical Ethics Daniels, Norman Light Daniels, Daniels Norman, Donald W Light, Donald W. Light, Donald W. (Professor of Comparative Health Systems Light, Light Donald W.
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 27.06.1996
• EAN: 9780195102376
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510237-6
• Pagine: 224
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali; MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, Public health & preventive medicine, Health systems & services, Public health and preventive medicine, Health systems and services