Rationing Makes The Front Page, But No Mention Of The “Most Rationed” Of Health Services, Treatment Of Mental Illness & Addictions

OPEN MINDS, The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Cover Story Health care rationing made the front page of The Wall Street Journal in September. The focus of the Journal article was an initiative by pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly & Company to call attention to rationing in critical care units. The article cited a July, 2002, survey of members of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) with 55% reporting their hospitals had limited access to certain medications and 35% reporting their hospitals had rationed intensive care unit beds. Also described was Lilly's grant of $1.8 million . . .