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Economics of NHS Cost-Saving and its Morality on the ‘Living Dead’

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  • Jackson Emerson Abraham

    (Research Scholar, Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham. Also, a Senior Research Economist at the Bank of Sierra (Model Building and Analysis Section).)

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This article has been championed on account of the experience of (perceived) economic rationalization which seem to be the foremost of patients’ care as opposed to addressing distress to human existing well-being, while in a state of being tormented with agonizing news of prolonged ill health. Several considerations have been proposed as a way of addressing the need to rationalize resources in ensuring the long standing history of the NHS focus on ‘free health care’ is critically covered, but not in a way that destroys confidence on the ability of professionals to manifest ethical prudence in their acts of judgments about whether patients care is to be made immediate or prolonged on a waiting list. There is certainly serious impacts to be comprehended with in situation of economic rationality through services provided by the NHS; it is believed that tangible outcomes about definitive care for patients can be addressed collaboratively.

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  • Jackson Emerson Abraham, 2017. "Economics of NHS Cost-Saving and its Morality on the ‘Living Dead’," Journal of Heterodox Economics, Sciendo, vol. 4(1), pages 1-10, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:joheec:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:1-10:n:1
    DOI: 10.1515/jheec-2017-0001
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    1. Jackson, Emerson Abraham, 2019. "Systemic health care failure as a symptom of Market Failure in Sierra Leone," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, issue Forthcomi.

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    Keywords

    Moral Economics; Cost Saving; Morality; Living Dead; NHS;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
    • D64 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets

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