PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Daniel Callahan
TI  - Response to Roger W. Hunt.
AID  - 10.1136/jme.19.1.24
DP  - 1993 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 24--27
VI  - 19
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/19/1/24.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/19/1/24.full
SO  - J Med Ethics1993 Mar 01; 19
AB  - A response to a critique by Roger W. Hunt of my views on the eventual likely need to use age as a standard for the allocation of expensive, high-technology, life-extending medical care for the elderly. The response encompasses three elements: 1. that while the elderly have a substantial claim to publicly-provided health care, it cannot be an unlimited claim; 2. that a health care system which provided a decent, coherent set of medical and social services for the elderly would be sufficient, even if some limits had to be set; and 3. allocation and rationing decisions should not be made by individual doctors at the bedside but by regional or national policy.