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rationing healthcare  

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  • Rationing typically refers to the distribution of some good or service insufficient in supply to meet the available demand for it. Most people think of rationing as a situation when scarce commodities such as fuel during wartime are not sufficiently available. [Source: Encyclopedia of Health Services Research; Rationing Healthcare]

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