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Must We Ration Health Care for the Elderly?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Daniel Callahan
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For well over 20 years I have been arguing that someday we will have to ration health care for the elderly. I got started in the mid-1980s when I served on an Office of Technology Assessment panel to assess the likely impact on elderly health care costs of emergent, increasingly expensive medical technologies. They would, the panel concluded, raise some serious problems for the future of Medicare. The panel did not take up what might be done about those costs, but I decided to think about that question and wrote a book called, Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , Spring 2012 , pp. 10 - 16
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2012

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