“Backdoor rationing” refers to which of the following?

a. Rationing health care on the basis of age without public acknowledgment of the practice.
b. Implementing a waiting list to replace a market system for allocating some types of medical care.
c. Implicit or indirect methods of rationing that limit access to the health care system, such as through case management.
d. Setting up special committees to decide which patients will have access to certain services.
e. None of these.


c. Implicit or indirect methods of rationing that limit access to the health care system, such as through case management.

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