Review Essay: Herding Cats and Reforming the American Health Care System

Eckholm Erick , “Health Benefits Found to Deter Job Switching,” The New York Times, Sept. 26, 1991, A1.

See Congressional Budget Office, Projections of National Health Expenditures (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, Oct., 1992), p. 14 (Table 1).

Uwe E. Reinhardt has made this point more than once on national television.

Goodman John C. Musgrave Gerald L. , Patient Power: Solving America's Health Care Crisis (Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 1992).

See Pear Robert , “Health Care Cost May Be Increased $100 Billion A Year,” The New York Times, May 3, 1993, A1.

Gabel Jon Cohen Howard Fink Steven , “Americans' Views on Health Care: Foolish Inconsistencies?,” Health Affairs, Spring (1989): 112.

See Fries James F. , “Aging, National Death, and the Compression of Morbidity,” N. Engl. J. Med., 330 (July 17, 1980): 130; also see Doll Richard Peto Richard , “The Causes of Cancer,” J. Nat. Cancer Inst., 66 (June, 1981): 1256.

See Light Donald W. , “The Practice and Ethics of Risk-Related Health Insurance,” JAMA, 267 (May 13, 1992): 2503.

Gostin Lawrence O. , “Foreword: Health Care Reform in the United States—The Presidential Task Force,” Am. J. Law & Med., 19 (1993): 7.

Siegel Jacob S. Davidson Maria , “Demographic and Socioeconomic Aspects of Aging in the United States,” U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Special Studies (August, 1984), p. 73.

Haavi Morreim E. , Balancing Act: The New Medical Ethics of Medicine's New Economics (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991).

See, e.g., Churchill Larry R. , Rationing Health Care in America: Perceptions and Principles of Justice (Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1987).

See Ginzberg Eli , The Medical Triangle: Physicians, Politicians, and the Public (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990), p. 1.

Morreim , op. cit., p. 1.

Ibid., p. 2.

Ibid., pp. 50–51.

Ibid., p. 40.

Ibid., p. 100.

See, e.g., Payton v. Weaver , 182 Cal. Rptr. 225 (1982).

Morreim , op. cit., p. 145.

Ibid.

See, Stell Lance K. , “The Noncompliant Substance Abuser,” Hastings Center Report, 31 (March–April, 1991): 31.

I am indebted to Baruch Brody for this point.

I am indebted to H. Tristram Engelhardt for this point.

Morreim , op. cit., p. 89.

Ibid.

See Dougherty Charles J. , American Health Care: Realities, Rights and Reforms (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. 87–88.

Morreim , op. cit., p. 3.

See, e.g., Hare Richard M. , Moral Thinking: Its Levels, Method and Point (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981).

Morreim , op. cit., p. 3.

Ibid., p. 136.

Ibid.

See also Fried Charles , Right and Wong (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978).

Rhodes Robert P. , Health Care: Politics, Policy and Distributive justice (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992).

Rhodes , op. cit., p. 3.

Ibid., p. 106.

Ibid., p. 19.

Ibid., pp. 36, 34.

Meyer Jack A. Lewin Marion E. , Charting the Future of Health Care (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1987), p. 5.

Rhodes , op. cit., p. 24.

Ibid.

Hastings Center Report, April (1983): 23.

Rhodes , op. cit., p. 101.

See Plott Charles , “Axiomatic Social Choice Theory,” Am. J. Poli. Sci., 20 (August, 1976): 511. Also see Plott Charles Levine Michael , “A Model of Agenda Influence on Committee Decisions,” Am. Econ. Rev., 68 (March 1978): 146.

Rhodes , op. cit., p. 280.

Ibid.

Morreim , op. cit., p. 37.