Should health-care resources be subject to rationing?

Answer 1

Not everyone will agree because opinions about rationing of healthcare resources will vary. My opinion is that healthcare resources should not be subject to rationing. Services that people need should be available to every person who needs them. Rationing services would create many ethical issues, such as how who receives the rationed services would be decided (severity of disease, age, general health, how useful the person is to society, etc.) and who would make that decision. In the event of unavoidable rationing of healthcare resources, questions such as those would have to be made, and it would lead to discrimination, most likely toward the elderly, poor, and those viewed as less useful for society.