Providing life-saving health care to undocumented children: controversies and ethical issues.
Pediatricians and hospitals with special pediatric expertise are facing the dilemma of rationing care to uninsured, undocumented children, especially for expensive life-saving care such as transplants, chemotherapy, and dialysis. This article reviews a relevant case history and provides a review and discussion of the ethical and policy issues associated with this problem.
Young
Janine
J
Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Flores
Glenn
G
Berman
Stephen
S
D002648:Child; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000941:ethics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000941:ethics; D006291:Health Policy; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000941:ethics / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000191:economics / Q000628:therapy*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000191:economics; D008297:Male; D017057:Medically Uninsured; D017058:Mexican Americans; D016134:Organizational Policy; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States