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Rationing Health

This just in from my colleague at PRI’s The World – a series called “Rationing Health: Who Lives?  Who Decides?”, airing on public radio and online starting tomorrow.  The series takes a look at four countries where different approaches to the distribution of healthcare have led to ethical dilemmas, including:

  • South Africa – Rationing by Committee
  • United Kingdom – Rationing by Cost Effectiveness
  • Zambia – Rationing by Queue
  • India – Rationining in Disasters

Seems like an interesting series, particularly given the US’s own internal debate about national healthcare.  Listen in!

 

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Cynthia Schweer Rayner

Cynthia Schweer Rayner is an independent consultant and philanthropy advisor specializing in public health, social entrepreneurship and scalable business models for positive social change. As a recovering management consultant, she spent several months living in South Africa, and later co-founded the US branch of an organization providing support to orphaned and vulnerable children. In 2009, she was an LGT Venture Philanthropy Fellow, working with mothers2mothers (m2m), a multinational non-profit organization employing mothers living with HIV as peer educators to positive pregnant women. She currently works with individuals, companies and nonprofits to finance and develop models for positive change. Cynthia has an MBA from INSEAD and a BA in English Literature from Georgetown University. She currently lives in Cape Town and visits New York frequently, where she co-owns a Manhattan-based yoga studio, mang'Oh yoga (www.mangohstudio.com).