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New Directions in Public Health Care - A Prescription for the 1980''s

English · Hardback

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This volume is a revised edition of The Institute for Contemporary Study's report on national health insurance. It includes an analysis of legislation currently before Congress; an examination of hos-pital cost increases and cost containment; an in-vestigation of the politics of the National Health Insurance which asks if any major interest group involved in health care wants increased competi-tion; new research on both the NHS in Britain and Canada's relatively recent experiments with full NHI; an update on public health care; a considera-tion of the relationship between health and health care; a discussion of the subsidy of health care; and an analysis of the market for medical care and the effects of an NHI on the market for physicians.

List of contents

1: Medical Care and the Pursuit of Health *; 2: Government and Health *; 3: The Lessons of Centralized Medicine; 4: More Evidence on Britain and Canada; 5: The Organization of Medical Care Markets; 6: The Administration’s Case for Hospital Cost Containment; 7: Public Sector Medicine: History and Analysis; 8: Proposals under Consideration*; 9: The Long-Run Effects of National Health Insurance on Medical Care Prices and Output *; 10: Does Anyone Want Competition? The Politics of NHI; 11: Your Very Good Health*; 12: Recapitulation and Coda

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Cotton M. Lindsay

Summary

This volume is a revised edition of The Institute for Contemporary Study's report on national health insurance. It includes an analysis of legislation currently before Congress; an examination of hos-pital cost increases and cost containment; an in-vestigation of the politics of the National Health Insurance which asks if any major interest group involved in health care wants increased competi-tion; new research on both the NHS in Britain and Canada's relatively recent experiments with full NHI; an update on public health care; a considera-tion of the relationship between health and health care; a discussion of the subsidy of health care; and an analysis of the market for medical care and the effects of an NHI on the market for physicians.

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Authors Harold Joseph Laski, Cotton M. Lindsay, Cotton Mather Lindsay, Lindsay Cotton M.
Assisted by Alain Enthoven (Editor), W. Philip Gramm (Editor), LeonR. Kass (Editor), Keith B. Leffler (Editor), Cotton M. Lindsay (Editor), Jack A. Meyer (Editor), Charles E. Phelps (Editor), Thomas C. Schelling (Editor), Harry Schwartz (Editor), Arthur Seldon (Editor), David A. Stockman (Editor), Lewis Thomas (Editor)
Publisher Transaction Publishers
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.09.1980
 
EAN 9780878553945
ISBN 978-0-87855-394-5
No. of pages 297
Series Social Science Classics
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General

Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery

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