Dealing with Limited Resources

摘要: IN the spring of 1987, Joint Ways and Means Committee Oregon legislature faced a painful choice. The Division Adult Family Services, charged with administering state Medicaid program, framed options for next two years. During biennium — basic funding period in could either extend its health care to include about 1500 persons not covered previously, or continue fund program organ transplantation (bone marrow, heart, liver, pancreas) projected 34 patients. In dramatic example type . . .