Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-1993
Abstract
Access to medical care is an issue of acute and increasing importance in the United States, a country in which the most promising of ground-breaking technologies may be available to only the privileged few. Although debate about the problem of unequal access to medical care typically centers on financial obstacles to advanced therapies and the obvious inequity of allowing patients' ability to pay to drive treatment decisions, issues of equitable access for patients of both genders and all racial and ethnic backgrounds increasingly have come into focus. These concerns about equitable access animate the ongoing debate about how government should regulate the transplantation of kidneys.
Recommended Citation
Laura G. Dooley, Ian Ayres & Robert S. Gaston, Unequal Racial Access to Kidney Transplantation, 46 Vand. L. Rev. 805 (1993).
Source Publication
Vanderbilt Law Review