More questions than answers: the commodification of health care.
The changing world of health care finance has led to a paradigm shift in health care with health care being viewed more and more as a commodity. Many have argued that such a paradigm shift is incompatible with the very nature of medicine and health care. But such arguments raise more questions than they answer. There are important assumptions about basic concepts of health care and markets that frame such arguments.
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The Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA.
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