Rationales for rationing health care in the NHS.
Rationing of health-care resources has moved from being a theoretical possibility to becoming a practical reality, a move that has been made more explicit since the introduction of a market-oriented approach to the management of the health service. The following two papers provide an introduction to the debate surrounding health-care rationing and make some suggestions on how the subject can be placed under more explicit democratic controls.
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