Uncomfortable Arithmetic — Whom to Cover versus What to Cover

New in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a couple PhDs with Harvard credentials admit that no matter what health care reform looks like, the money isn't unlimited.

The government won't be able to cover everyone for everything.

"[E]ventually, we will have to engage in the difficult discussions required to choose whom and what our public insurance programs should cover," the authors admit near the end of the article. "Some might call this rationing, but the reality is that millions of Americans now have no access to lifesaving medical technologies at the same time that public resources are being devoted to covering less-effective therapies for less-serious conditions. We find that sort of rationing hard to justify."

Interesting article, if only for its honesty.

Read it here:

Uncomfortable Arithmetic — Whom to Cover versus What to Cover

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