"Backdoor Rationing" Refers to Which of the Following

question 19

Multiple Choice

"Backdoor rationing" refers to which of the following?

• A) Rationing health care on the basis of age without public acknowledgment of the practice.
• B) Implementing a waiting list to replace a market system for allocating some types of medical care.
• C) Implicit or indirect methods of rationing that limit access to the health care system, such as through case management.
• D) Setting up special committees to decide which patients will have access to certain services.
• E) None of these.

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