Join us Monday, March 5, 2012 for a special lecture to mark the tenth anniversary of the IU Center for Bioethics.

The Inevitability of Rationing in American Health Care and How To Do So Justly and Fairly

Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D
Sidney D. Caplan Professor of Bioethics at the University Of Pennsylvania

Monday, March 5, 2012

3:00PM – 4:00PM

Riley Outpatient Center (Roc) Auditorium
575 Riley Outpatient Drive
Indianapolis, Indiana
For more information, contact: evajacks@iupui.edu

View this event's livestream on Indiana University's video streaming service on March 5 at 3pm.

There is no reason to presume that the cost of care of health care will decline in the coming decade. Efforts at prevention are not the primary focus of American public or economic policy; the obesity epidemic continues to grow; the population continues to age; new and expensive neurological and genomic tests will soon be available to assess risk and guide treatment; and funds for more research for the diagnosis and treatment of disease continue to flow, promising no relief from cost. Despite decades of talk of improving efficiency and thus lowering cost, nothing has happened to reduce expenditures. Thus, rationing is inevitable. How should we ration and what principles ought to guide our thinking?

Arthur L. Caplan is the Sydney D. Caplan Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He has served on a number of national and international committees and he is the author or editor of twenty-nine books and over 500 papers in refereed journals. His most recent books are Smart Mice Not So Smart People (Rowman Littlefield, 2006) and the Penn Guide to Bioethics (Springer, 2009). Caplan writes a twice monthly column on bioethics for MSNBC.com. He is a weekly commentator on bioethics and health care issues for Fox 29 in Philadelphia and for WebMD/Medscape. He appears frequently as a guest and commentator on various other national and international media outlets. Caplan was a person of the Year-2001 from USA Today. He was described as one of the ten most influential people in science by Discover magazine in 2008. He has also been honored as one of the fifty most influential people in American health care by Modern Health Care magazine, one of the ten most influential people in America in biotechnology by the National Journal, one of the ten most influential people in the ethics of biotechnology by the editors of Nature Biotechnology.