Healthcare rationing means the equitable distribution of limited healthcare resources. The means of distribution and the manner in which these choices are made varies depending on each person's perspective. Rationing already occurs in the United States in areas such as organ transplantation.

Title of Thesis: IMPLEMENTING AND EVALUATING ALTERNATIVE AIRSPACE RATIONING METHODS Degree candidate: Jason Matthew Burke Degree and year: Master of Science, 2002 Thesis directed by: Professor Michael O. Ball Institute for Systems Research While airport congestion has long been viewed as a major air traffic management problem in the United States, congestion in the en route airspace is drawing ...

BACKGROUND Societal preferences have to be taken into consideration to ensure difficult healthcare decisions are legitimate and acceptable. It has been interesting to ascertain whether attitudes towards the principles of public healthcare resources allocation are homogenous. In particular, it has been thought provoking to ask whether advancement in medical technologies, and growing accessibilit...

A Constitutional Theory of the Family The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The behavioural and policy implications are illustrated by showing the...