Talk:Health care rationing
Should this article talk about the reality of rationing? I mean here that of course since there is effectively unlimited potential to spend on healthcare and only finite resources available we always have to ration it somehow. I know a little bit about the UK situation, where for the most part such rationing is implemented locally (by clinicians), but the broad decisions are taken nationally (by NICE) and occasionally interfered with by politicians. Ultimately of course the NHS has a budget, modest local overspends might be tolerated, but if you go seriously over budget people from the Ministry are going to start closing hospitals to make the numbers add up. What's "on mission" here and what isn't? Is there somewhere else on the Wiki that we should explain some of these things? 81.2.89.113 (talk) 14:22, 3 February 2013 (UTC)