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Should basic care get priority? Doubts about rationing the Oregon way.

R M Veatch1

  • 1Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University.

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
|August 7, 1991
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This study examines the definition of "basic care" in healthcare rationing. It argues that defining basic care solely by cost-effectiveness, as in Oregon

Area of Science:

  • Bioethics
  • Healthcare Policy
  • Medical Ethics

Background:

  • Healthcare rationing necessitates defining
  • basic care
  • often assumed to be morally prior.
  • The concept of
  • basic care
  • is frequently linked to cost-effectiveness in policy discussions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To critically evaluate the premise that
  • basic care
  • is morally prior.
  • To analyze Oregon's healthcare rationing scheme and its definition of
  • basic care
  • .

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of
Keywords:
Analytical ApproachHealth Care and Public HealthMedicaidOregon Health Services Commission

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  • basic care
  • definitions.
  • Ethical critique of cost-effectiveness as the sole criterion for defining
  • basic care
  • .

    • Main Results:

    • The premise of
    • basic care
    • being morally prior is questioned.
    • Oregon's rationing scheme, defining
    • basic care
    • by cost-effectiveness, overlooks crucial ethical principles.

    Conclusions:

    • Cost-effectiveness alone is insufficient for defining
    • basic care
    • in healthcare.
    • Rationing schemes must integrate broader ethical considerations, such as justice, beyond mere economic efficiency.