title: Managed care organizations and the rationing problem.
abstract: By and large, neither bioethicists nor economists have offered a satisfactory account of how managed care organizations should ration health care. Both disciplines would like to guarantee adequate care to all without defining adequacy. But it cannot be done. The more we rely on market forces to distribute health care, the more we need a national standard of care.
authors.forename: Mary Ann
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Baily
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D028681:Moral Obligations; D010819:Physician's Role; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States