As anyone who has ever had to oversee administration of an employer’s health insurance program knows, America’s health care finance system is in crisis. For those interested in the issues involved in this crisis, the Wall Street Journal ($) has put together a special health care finance section that includes links to a series of stories involving the issue of rationing in America’s health care system. The stories include: “Six Prescriptions to Ease Rationing”; “Universal Care Has a Big Price: Patients Wait”; “Longer Dialysis Raises Hopes, but Poses Dilemma”; “Stark Choices at a Texas Hospital”; “Lilly Fuels Debate Over Rationing”; “An Invisible Web of Gatekeepers”; “Health Care’s Big Secret: Rationing Is Here.” This is a great resource for reviewing the problems and issues confronting our health care finance system, and is worth the price of a WSJ subscription alone.
Along these lines, Jack over at TigerHawk posts this instructive blog entry regarding allocation of health care costs.