Minimum adequate levels of personal health care: history and justification.

摘要: By giving everyone paper rights to health care, Americans may end up doing little better, at much greater cost, and feeling worse about it. The key providing equity be find a way of defining the minimum that all should have. Most countries somehow define these limits for publicly provided services from education cash assistance. But care benefits there are no simple limiting criteria--especially when professionals have exceptional luxury using whatever resources they choose. A realistic floor requires toughly maintained ceilings.