Unaffordable demand leads to rationing of services
Treatments in acute medical care services are rationed in an attempt to make savings by reducing the demand for health services. This results in a rise in privatised preventative and elective work, which results in a two-tier system. The rich stay healthy while the poor become unhealthy. Although demand for services is reduced, patients present with severe illness and there is a rise in AMU mortality rates.
Proposed workforce impact
- There is reduced demand for services.
- There is an increase in the private sector in other non-acute areas, with acute as a backstop for the majority
- There is an increase in expensive acute services.
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Additional research questions
- How do you decide what is rationed?
- How do you decide who is eligible?
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