Word: medicale
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Which is more valuable? To provide a $150,000 liver transplant for an ailing child of indigent parents? Or to use that money for prenatal care that may enhance the life expectancy of fetuses being carried by 150 expectant mothers? To most Americans, the either/or aspect of the question is...
The state of Oregon and California's Alameda County, which includes Oakland, are on the verge of taking that seemingly drastic step. In April, the Oregon senate passed a bill that would extend Medicaid coverage to 86,000 low-income people previously not covered. There would, however, be limits to...
In Alameda County, the board of supervisors last January hired a professional ethicist to assist a committee of medical experts in deciding what specific services will be made available to the county's uninsured poor. "It's scary," says Dr. Marye L. Thomas, Alameda's director of mental health and...
In a sense, rationing medical care is a form of 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...
Daniel Callahan, director of the Hastings Center, which specializes in the study of bioethical issues, approves the pioneering steps being taken by Oregon and Alameda. Trying to contain medical costs by greater efficiencies is "wishful thinking" in his view. One reason is the inexorable aging of America, as the nation...