Question

Other countries control the utilization of health care services through rationing and do so successfully. Do you believe that the U.S should ration health care? Make your argument for or against rationing of health care, and how it would affect society either way.

Respond in your own words.

Answer 1

Ans) Health care “rationing” doesn’t only occur abroad: the U.S. rations through its comparatively limited access to comprehensive insurance coverage and affordable care, with one of three U.S. patients skipping needed care or treatments because of cost.

- Some say European countries are able to provide universal coverage only by “rationing” care — often through long wait times for specialists or elective surgery-

- It would be a missed opportunity for America to ignore lessons about universal coverage from other countries out of a fear that they ration health care more than we do. In reality, more people in the U.S. forgo needed health care because access to care is rationed through lack of access to adequate insurance or unaffordable services and treatments.