Dr Dixon defended the idea of GPs taking a more active role in rationing treatment under the new system.

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It then resold it to the public through the country's rationing system at eight chon.

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Against the wishes of the Allied occupiers, he overnight threw out the German system of rationing and wage-and-price controls.

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On Friday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie ordered the odd-even rationing system to take effect in twelve affected counties.

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Although this approach has been demonised in America it merely makes explicit the rationing in any medical system through the decisions of insurers and funders.

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The point of managed care was to introduce a degree of rationing into a health-care system that, by the late 1980s, was suffering from inflation of 15% a year or even more.

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Price rationing and a functioning price system are the clear-cut winners for maximizing benefits between producers and consumers when these two sides freely and willingly engage in market behavior.

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The state's emergency plan gives state officials unilateral authority to order a rationing system.

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"The current system is dogged by means-testing, a postcode lottery of charges, a rationing of services and poor standards and nothing in the plan looks like it will address any of these concerns, " its general secretary Dot Gibson said.

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