Markets and Health Care: A Comparative AnalysisWendy Ranade A growing reliance on market disciplines and incentives characterised health care reform strategies in many countries in the 1990s, yet the country which relies most heavily on private health care - the U.S.A. - is the most expensive in the world and still fails to deliver affordable health care to millions of its citizens. This apparent paradox is the starting point in the discussions presnted in this book which also:
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Explaining the rise of the market in health care | 17 |
Economic perspectives on markets and health care | 34 |
The procompetitive movement in American medical politics | 54 |
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