Who is entitled to what?
Lamm, R.D.
Healthcare Financial Management Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association 57(9): 74-77
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0735-0732 PMID: 14503147 Document Number: 553352
With resources becoming scarcer, providers, payers, and governments alike are grappling with how to best use these resources to serve the American people. Should the focus be on caring for individual patients (microallocation)? Or should the focus be on how to best serve a group of people (macroallocation)? Whether tax monies or health insurance premiums, pooled resources are always limited resources. Macroallocation involves trade-offs and setting priorities, but in the end, rationing is an obligation.