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The age-rationing debate of fifteen years ago will inevitably reemerge as health care costs escalate. All age-rationing proposals should be judged in light of the current system of rationing health care by price in the U.S., and the resulting pattern of excess and deprivation. Age-rationing should be rejected as public policy, but recognized as a personal virtue of stewardship among the elderly.
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Churchill, L.R. Age-Rationing in Health Care: Flawed Policy, Personal Virtue. Health Care Anal 13, 137–146 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-005-4477-9
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