Suggestions for reducing health care costs in the United States by rationing have included proposals to use age as a criterion for resources in medical care. In this Sounding Board essay, Levinsky examines arguments for withholding costly, life-prolonging from elderly patients. He questions the reasoning behind such and whether substantial savings can be realized unless routine care is withheld from the elderly as well as high technology care. argues strongly against using age as a rationing criterion as to society. (KIE abstract)
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Norman G. Levinsky (1990) studied this question.
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