Can We Say No?: the challenge of rationing health care is an examination of the problem of affordable health care in the United States. The authors, Henry Aaron (Brookings) and William Schwartz (USC) with Mellisa Cox, examine the high costs of advancing medical technologies and the declining percentage of the U.S. population covered by medical insurance. They analyze the British experience and how it might be extrapolated to the United States. They conclude that we may find it necessary "to squeeze out care that costs more than it is worth." (p. 148) A sobering read.
(Vairo Library RA410.5.A23 2005)