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Markets in Health Care: The Case of Renal Transplantation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Troyen Brennan
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Recent developments in organ procurement have revived the much-debated role of markets in our health care system. The unique American health care system, with its presumption of universality alongside private health insurance and relatively limited federal and state programs, is in many ways consumer-driven today. We certainly tolerate more broad disparities in availability of care and in outcomes of care largely based on socioeconomic status than do many other developed countries, where notions of universal access are supported by broader public financing.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , Summer 2007 , pp. 249 - 255
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2007

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