![]() ![]() ![]() Healthcare resources, whether understood in material or in human terms, are limited, nor is this a function of how healthcare is delivered. These considerations apply to healthcare as much as they do to anything else. On the microlevel, allocation is then resolved on the basis of the ability to pay on the macrolevel, the question becomes whether the economic structure that governs the cost/price relationship for the commodities is sufficiently robust to allow for the survival of the economic enterprise that is associated with the production and sale of the goods in question. Notions of competing rights or of maximizing the aggregate good drop out of the picture and economic considerations take their place. When the resources are construed as commodities, the allocation problem assumes a different orientation. When the resources are construed as social goods, allocation may proceed either in terms of competition between individuals on the basis of the relative strengths of their competing rights, or on an aggregate basis by evaluating which distribution would (be likely to) produce the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people. How that problem is solved depends largely on the nature of the resources themselves. ![]() When resources are limited and demand exceeds supply, allocation becomes a problem. ![]()
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