Table of Contents

Problems and choices; who shall live?; the physician - the captain of the team; the hospital - the house of hope; drugs - the key to modern medicine; paying for medical carel health and social choice; what every philosopher should know about health economics; poverty and health - asking the right questions; from Bismarck to Woodcock - the "irrational" pursuit of national health insurance; national health insurance revisited; the Clinton plan - a researcher examines reform; economics, values and health care reform.