Umfang:
1 online resource (328 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415208444
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9780203022412
Serie:
Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy Series
Inhalt:
This volume examines the two models of health care reform - managed competition and internal markets - that are increasingly becoming the dominant paradigm in European and North American policy
Anmerkung:
Cover -- International Health Care Reform: A Legal, Economic and Political Analysis -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Why Reform? -- The Reform Models -- The Chosen Health Care Allocation Systems -- The Need for an Interdisciplinary Approach -- 2. Arguments in Economics and Justice for Government Intervention in Health Insurance and Health Service Markets -- Market Failure in the Health Care Insurance and Service Supply Markets -- Distributive Justice -- Conclusion -- 3. The Reform of Health Care Allocation Systems in the Us, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the Uk -- The Us Health Care System and the 1993 Reform Proposals -- The Netherlands' Health Care System and the 1987 Reform Proposals -- The New Zealand Health Care System and the 1991 Reform Proposals -- The Uk Health Care System and the 1989 Reform Proposals -- Synthesis and Conclusion -- 4. Accountability of Health Care Service Purchasers: Comparing Internal Markets and Managed Competition -- Agency and Public Choice -- The Lines of Accountability -- Hirschman's Voice and Exit -- Voice and Political Accountability -- Exit and Market Accountability -- Conclusion -- 5. The Interface Between Health Care Service Purchasers and Providers: Contracting Out Versus Integrated Production -- The Purchaser/Provider Split -- Theories of the Firm and Reasons for and Against Vertical Integration -- The Varying Characteristics of Health Care Service Markets -- Contracting in Internal Markets -- Managed Care in Internal Markets -- Conclusion: A Flexible Approach -- 6. The Problems of Monopoly Supply -- Competing Purchasers and the Problems of Monopoly Supply -- Solutions to the Problem of Monopoly Supply -- Conclusion -- 7. Achieving Quality in a Competition-Oriented System -- The Meaning of Quality
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Modes of Payment for Health Care Providers -- Solutions to Quality Problems -- Conclusion -- 8. Conclusion -- Motivation for Health Reform -- The Macro Cost-Containment Approach -- A New Paradigm: The Proactive Purchaser -- Internal Markets -- Managed Competition -- Reflections on the Canadian System -- Bibliography -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Flood, Colleen International Health Care Reform Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2000 ISBN 9780415208444
Sprache:
Englisch
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