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...companies or from state Medicaid, the status quo is not a free market, but it threatens to become one, given the high financial incentives for doctors and hospitals. Clearly a laissez-faire scramble for pieces of human bodies in which the stakes are immediate life or death for the patient is an indigestible alternative; this does not mean, however, that extensive state regulation is the answer...
...task force is choosing among decision-making processes. Their choice is a practically informed moral judgment between what they consider better or worse ways of deciding how to allocate organ transplants. The strongest negative implication of the "limited capacity" scenario is an increased possibility that a patient who might benefit from a transplant could be denied one through lack of funds. The task force has decided that other Medicaid programs are more important; perhaps they are, though it should be noted, for example, that the kind of heart defect suffered by Baby Fae kills a substantial number of infants...
...concluding that the doctor should decide for each patient's case, the task force subsumes an ethical judgment under a scientific judgment. This means enfranchising the doctor and his/her scientific procedure with the power of deciding whether or not to deny a patient a possible means of survival. Perhaps this is a solution; but, as Roberts puts it, how low do the odds of survival have to go for a doctor to say that a patient will not benefit? Roberts feels that there is "nothing novel about this" situation, that doctors are always faced with this kind of decision. There...
Fineberg: At one level, the problems of ethics imposed by technology have to do with life-sustaining methods in cases where life isn't really what we'd call "living," when it's not even in the patient's best interest. On another level, which is harder to evaluate, are the societal ethical questions. For example, there are too-expensive technologies which could create a system of multi-class care which is undesirable. Or, some issues carry ethically-charged questions like the right to life, such as decision-making about life-support systems. It's the latter group [societal...
That year Jones and Cherry realized that hospitals were earning six times as much per patient as nursing homes because of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements, so they built their first hospital. In 1968 the company made its first public stock offering at $8 a share...