This essay focuses on health care rationing. The use of the term rationing generally has pejorative connotations. This is because the core meaning of the term in contemporary health care includes denying someone the care that they need.
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Accurately analyzes how healthcare organizations utilize financial principles for ensuring compliance. With government standards Analyzes how healthcare organizations utilize financial principles. For ensuring compliance with government standards but with gaps in accuracy or detail Does not analyze how healthcare organizations utilize financial principles. The use of the term rationing generally has pejorative connotations. This is because the core meaning of the term in contemporary health care includes denying someone the care that they need. Further, if there is a denial of care, there is also a ‘denier’ of that care. In other words, someone with social authority imposes that denial on a vulnerable patient who has no say in the matter.
This has the feel of coercion. This feels like an attack on that individual’s liberty. An individual feels powerless to resist because that individual is faced with a massive government bureaucracy. Or an equally massive insurance company. Finally, all the benefits of this rationing decision accrue to faceless public or equally. Faceless shareholders while the harms accrue to the individuals who are victims of a rationing decision. This is admittedly a stark portrayal of health care rationing. But it does capture the reasons why those responsible for controlling health care costs will deny that they are engaging in rationing.