Publisher's Synopsis
The present healthcare crisis in the United States is the result of our immensely successful progress toward conquering debilitating diseases and extending life expectancy. More people are alive today than the combined number of individuals who have reached the milestone of 80, 90, and 100 years old. Americans are outliving the normal limits of Social Security and Medicare resources. Now is the time in U.S. history to take a decisive stand on crucial healthcare issues regarding the moral and ethical considerations for providing rational and affordable health services within a framework of fairness and distributive justice. This is an update to the original 2009 volume with Sections One and Two (new).
