Word: health
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...Health officials cite grim statistics as evidence that they are acting out of fiscal need, not cruel disregard for human suffering. In Alameda, roughly 75% of the county's $278 million health-care budget comes from state and federal sources. But that money is drying up. For example, state funds are currently only about one-half of what the county received in 1982. Health administrators argue that rationing is a pointed way of telling legislators they must bear the responsibility for their budgetary decisions...
...triage -- the mellifluous French term, derived from wartime practice, for giving medical attention to the most likely survivors. This goes against the American grain. According to a 1987 Harris poll, more than 90% agreed with the statement that "everybody should have the right to get the best possible health care -- as good as the treatment a millionaire gets." But another survey, by the Public Agenda Foundation, found that only one person in ten would accept a $125 tax increase to support a national insurance program for catastrophic illness. As medical costs rise at an annual rate of more than...
...Rothman of New York City's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center notes, "This is not a country that has ever turned its back on new technology." On the broader issue of rationing, many opponents argue that the new Oregon and Alameda County regulations are inherently unfair, since the limits on health-care protection apply only to the poor, particularly the young. Dr. Sam Flint, a director of the American Academy of Pediatrics, notes that children account for roughly 50% of the Medicaid population but receive only about one-fifth of health-care dollars. Meanwhile, the elderly get about 40% of those...
ETHICS: Rationing health care may be the next step...
What's a little artificial fattening between friends? When the twelve-nation European Community banned the import of hormone-treated beef last January, claiming possible health hazards, American cattle ranchers were furious. They saw it as merely a protectionist maneuver to keep nearly $100 million in U.S. beef each year out of European shops. The U.S. Government retaliated by slapping 100% tariffs on a variety of E.C. exports worth roughly $100 million a year...