title: Setting priorities in the Spanish health care system.
abstract: Increasingly sophisticated and expensive medical technologies, chronic illness and aging, and a population that insists upon the best health care and coverage, together demand that priorities be set in the public funding of health care. This article describes Spanish initiatives in dealing with such problems and analyses the ethical implications of health care legislation and rationing.
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authors.lastname: Quintana
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authors.lastname: Infante
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration; D004989:Ethics; D005381:Financing, Organized; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006292:Health Priorities; D006296:Health Services / Q000191:economics; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science; D009014:Morals; D018579:Patient Selection; D010593:Pharmaceutical Services / Q000191:economics; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012922:Social Change; D013030:Spain; D013675:Technology, High-Cost