Health care is a finite resource and should be viewed as such, one doc argues. June 22, 2009— -- For a number of years I have enjoyed an invitation to submit opinion essays for consideration for ...

It is perhaps the most polarizing word in the health care debate: rationing. Countless conservative opponents of the Democrat-backed health care reform plans have used the word. Their argument goes ...

Governments should consider imposing World War II-style policies of rationing on goods such as food, fuel and clothing in order to fight climate change, according to a newly published academic paper.

Wartime rationing might be a thing of the past, but stretching your dollar is still worthwhile in times of inflation. Here's ...

Bryan Dowd and Kirk Allison are to be thanked for their lengthy treatise on the word “rationing.” It is a term whose interpretation economists have left to politicians – not invariably models of ...

Robert Wright notes that "we already ration health care; we just let the market do the rationing." This is a true point made by the proponents of health care reform. But I'm not sure why it's supposed ...

When a vaccine for Covid-19 becomes available — and the supply is sure to be limited — who should get it? That depends on who you ask. The Harris Poll released survey data in August that showed how ...

Created by the U.S. government, this animated video breaks down how food rationing worked during World War II and how point ...

The results of a study published last year from authors at Yale Diabetes Center suggest that rationing is more common than the healthcare system wants to admit. Senior author Kasia Lipska, MD, MHS, ...

After collapsing at his job and spending a week in a hospital, Thomas Strathmann of Bozeman, Mont., left with a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes and two boxes of insulin. He was told they would last “a ...