The Norwegian welfare state in transition: rationing and plurality of values as ethical challenges for the health care system.
This paper presents the Norwegian national health care system and the manner in which the problems of rationing and pluralism of values create new ethical and political challenges. The paper concludes with some doubts about the feasibility of the transformation taking place within this kind of health care system, with special reference to governmental control and consumer preferences.
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Senter for Medisinsk Etikk, Oslo, Norway.
D003256:Community Participation; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003363:Cost Control; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D004989:Ethics; D005381:Financing, Organized; D006076:Government; D033161:Government Regulation; D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D006292:Health Priorities; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health; D009664:Norway; D018579:Patient Selection; D011057:Politics; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012935:Social Justice; D012945:Social Values; D013222:State Medicine