Archive for May, 2007

Why We’re Rationing Covertly

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

We have seen that rationing healthcare is a fundamental economic imperative, and that we’re long past the point of asking whether we should (or must) ration. The real question is: How should we ration?
Our society has answered this question, too - at least implicitly and at least for now. That answer derives from a second […]

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Why We Have To Ration Healthcare

Friday, May 25th, 2007

The definition of healthcare rationing
Let’s be clear, first of all, on what we mean by rationing healthcare. Many definitions have been used, and most talk blandly about such things as the allocation of scarce resources, or the fair distribution of available benefits or goods or commodities. DrRich objects to such definitions on the grounds that […]

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Covert Rationing in a Nutshell

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

On the website associated with this blog, DrRich helpfully develops the Grand Unification Theory of Healthcare. He sincerely hopes you will spend some time there. But as a public service he offers the following, a brief summary of the five major truths about American healthcare that are revealed by the Grand Unification Theory. Here they […]

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Welcome to the Covert Rationing Blog

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

This blog is intended to illuminate the mechanisms, manifestations and consequences of what has become the Prime Directive of the American healthcare system, namely, to covertly ration our healthcare.
The companion website to this blog is The Grand Unification Theory of Healthcare. There you can find an entire exposition on the American healthcare system. […]

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