Cutting Health Care

<p>Rationing can be defined as a way of limiting products in short supply in order to assure equal distribution.</P><p>World History has examples of rationing. Examples have included the USA during World War II and Cuba since 1961. Recent examples in Medicine have included Oregon and the Czech Republic.</P><p>Recently Great Britain [with its National Health System] has considered rationing.</P><p>According to the <i>BBC News</I> Article: Rationing:'Only Option' for NHS [dated February 7 2001] the representatives of the British Medical Association Royal College of Nursing Patients Private Health Care Providers and the Pharmaceutical Industry concluded: Increased rationing is the only way to go forward.</P><p>BBC Look North of East Yorkshire/Lincolnshire [UK Local TV News Program] [on January 14 2005] had a segment on how Doctor Visits have been replaced by Paramedics.</p>