Rationing medical care

The World

With masks and ventilators in short supply, The World asks how health care providers around the world decide to allocate scarce resources. Host Marco Werman speaks with Dr Ezekiel Emanuel, a former health policy adviser to President Barack Obama and co-author of a new article on allocating scarce medical resources in the New England Journal of Medicine. 

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