The Political Economy of Health Care
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
031209986X
ISBN 13
9780312099862
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
1993
Publisher
Pages
267
Subject
Medical economics
Abstract
The Political Economy of Health Care examines the potential contribution of state intervention to health care. Impartial and unbiased, it reaches the conclusion that a wide range of differing opinions must be carefully considered if informed debate is ever to lead to consensus in this complex, confusing but vitally important area of social life.
Description
Some goods and services are normally left to the market mechanism. Health care is often described as an exception to the rule. Society wants care to be allocated equitably; it wants the financial burden to be kept within bounds; it wants treatments to be both medically effective and economically efficient. These shared concerns lead to a demand for State intervention which this book seeks impartially to appraise and evaluate. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
