Providing Health Care: The Economics of Alternative Systems of Finance and Delivery
- ISBN-10
- 0198283229
- ISBN-13
- 9780198283225
- Category
- Medical care, Cost of
- Pages
- 299
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Authors
- Paul Fenn, Alistair McGuire
Description
This text presents economic arguments which suggest why market failure is no extensive in this sector and, consequently, why regulation in both financing and provision is necessary. There is full discussion of various problems in the health care sector - output measurement, the definition of efficiency, and the problems of monitoring performance. The reforms of the UK health care sector are discussed in the light of these difficulties and the volume provides an analytical perspective within which the choice of various means of financing and providing health care can be evaluated. A number of chapters compare the UK health care system with alternative systems in Europe and the USA, and an historical perspective of previous UK systems is given.
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