Councils have responded by rationing access to care so only the most needy can get it.
Demand and prices would jump, followed by rationing in an attempt to contain costs.
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But they were every bit as good as the private sector in terms of choice and quality - if not far better, particularly after the 1944 Education Act and the founding of the NHS, which offered services and opportunities transformed from the pre-war years within a post-war economy and society governed by rationing, funding constraints, and pervasive low skills and aspirations.
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By objective rationing, we can make our country healthier by providing basic care to all AND lower cost.
And it was possible to provide good health care at an affordable cost by the government through state agencies, rationing it by thoughtful policy.
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Rationing by price is more efficient because it allocates road space to those who value it most.
Which would certainly be a valid way of dealing with it: if you have to ration then rationing by price is indeed the most efficient manner of doing so.
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Just about everyone in Oregon agrees with Dr Kitzhaber that it is better to ration health care by deciding which medical procedures you can do without, rather than rationing it by leaving an unfortunate minority totally unprotected.
He observed that it was possible to provide good health care at an affordable cost through the free market, rationing it by price.
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Republicans vowed last week to outlaw the rationing of care by age.
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So any rationing of benefits by income would need to be based on something that looked a lot more like the traditional means test.
Manuel Cortes, leader of the TSSA transport workers' union, said the select committee report was "the clearest warning to ministers against going down the route of rationing rail travel by pricing passengers off trains through super peak-fare tickets".
Second, an energy shortage obliged the government to impose rationing aimed at cutting electricity consumption by a fifth.
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Brazilians were obliged to cut back their power usage by a fifth under a government led "volunteer" rationing program.
The result: by the late 1940s, most of Europe was still rationing food, rebuilding its cities, bridges, and roads, and coming to terms with new political systems.
Health reform points to a world of centralized rationing through Medicare and a return to capitated payments by private payers.
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Medical rationing is never easy, and is hardly helped by the war of words between large and small transplant centres.
The point of managed care was to introduce a degree of rationing into a health-care system that, by the late 1980s, was suffering from inflation of 15% a year or even more.
Peacetime spurred it even higher, helped by a baby boom and a desire to spend after years of rationing.
"The current system is dogged by means-testing, a postcode lottery of charges, a rationing of services and poor standards and nothing in the plan looks like it will address any of these concerns, " its general secretary Dot Gibson said.
Rationing has prompted more Brits to get private insurance, now chosen by 12% of the population, for elective procedures like knee replacements.
By creating a financial incentive to increase the gap between cost of care and payments, ACOs may be accused of rationing care, even if payments are tied to quality of care, rather than quantity.
State records show that New York officials had drawn up a list of responses to a fuel shortage, including gas rationing, more than seven years ago as part of a comprehensive emergency plan that the state is required by law to follow during a disaster.
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